Hegde's Pocketguide to Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology

Hegde’s PocketGuide to Treatment in Speech-Language Pathology

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Hegde’s PocketGuide to Treatment in Speech-Language Pathology Second Edition

M. N. Hegde, Ph.D. Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders California State University-Fresno

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hegde, M. N. (Mahabalagiri N.), 1941– Hegde’s pocketGuide to assessment in speechlanguage pathology / by M. N. Hegde.—2nd ed. p. ; cm. Rev. ed. of: PocketGuide to assessment in speechlanguage pathology. c1996. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-7693-0158-4 (softcover : alk. paper) 1. Speech disorders— Diagnosis—Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title: PocketGuide to assessment in speech-language pathology. II. Hegde, M. N. (Mahabalagiri N.) 1941– PocketGuide to assessment in speechlanguage pathology. III. Title. [DNLM: 1. Speech Disorders—diagnosis— Handbooks. 2. Language Disorders—diagnosis— Handbooks. WL 39 H462h 2001] RC423 .H38286 2001 616.85'5075—dc21 00-049225

ABBREVIATED CONTENTS: ENTRIES BY DISORDERS Preface Aphasia Apraxia of Speech Articulation and Phonological Disorders Cerebral Palsy Cleft Palate Cluttering Dementia Dysarthria Dysphagia Hearing Impairment Language Disorders in Children Laryngectomy Right Hemisphere Syndrome Stuttering Traumatic Brain Injury Voice Disorders

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M. N. (Giri) Hegde is Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at California State UniversityFresno. He holds a master’s degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Mysore, India, a post-master’s diploma in Medical (Clinical) Psychology from Bangalore University, India, and a doctoral degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. A specialist in fluency disorders, language disorders, research designs, and treatment procedures in communicative disorders, Dr. Hegde has made numerous scientific and professional presentations to national and international audiences. He has extensive clinical and research experience and has published research articles on a wide range of subjects, including fluency and language, their disorders, and treatment. Dr. Hegde has authored or co-authored several highly regarded and widely used scientific and professional books, including Clinical Research in Communicative Disorders, Introduction to Communicative Disorders, Treatment Procedures in Communicative Disorders, Treatment Protocols in Communicative Disorders, A Coursebook on Scientific and Professional Writing in Speech-Language Pathology, Clinical Methods and Practicum in Speech-Language Pathology, A PocketGuide to Assessment in Speech-Language-Pathology, A Singular Manual of Textbook Preparation, A Coursebook on Language Disorders in Children, An Advanced Review of Speech-Language Pathology, and Assessment and Treatment of Articulation and Phonological Disorders in Children. He is the Editor of the Singular Textbook Series and has served on the editorial boards of several scientific and professional journals. Dr. Hegde has received many honors and awards, including the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Southern Illinois University Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Outstanding Professor Award from California State University-Fresno, Outstanding Professional Achievement Award from District Five of California Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and Fellowship in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

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Preface The second edition of this PocketGuide to treatment procedures in speech-language pathology has been updated and expanded by more than 100 pages. Information on ethnocultural variables that affect treatment has been added under each disorder and the steps involved in administering certain treatment procedures are described in more detail in the second edition. Simultaneous revision of the companion volume, Hegde’s PocketGuide to Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology has also helped to streamline the information in the two books. This PocketGuide to treatment procedures in speech-language pathology has been designed for clinical practitioners and students in communicative disorders. The PocketGuide combines the most desirable features of a specialized dictionary of terms, clinical resource book, and textbooks and manuals on treatment. It is meant to be a quick reference book like a dictionary because the entries are alphabetized; but it offers more than a dictionary because it specifies treatment procedures in a ‘‘do this’’ format. The PocketGuide is like a resource book in that it avoids theoretical and conceptual aspects of procedures presented; but it offers more than a resource book by clearly specifying the steps involved in treating clients. The PocketGuide is like standard textbooks that describe treatment procedures; but it organizes the information in a manner conducive to more ready use. By avoiding theoretical background and controversies, the PocketGuide gives the essence of treatment in a stepby-step format that promotes easy understanding and ready reference just before beginning treatment. The PocketGuide does not suggest that theoretical and research issues are not important in treating clients; it just assumes that the user is familiar with them. How the PocketGuide is Organized Each main entry is printed in bold and burgundy color. Each cross-referenced entry is underlined in burgundy. Each main vii

Preface disorder of communication is entered in its alphabetical order. Subcategories or types of a given disorder are described under the main entry (e.g., Broca’s Aphasia under Aphasia). Specific techniques, most of them with general applicability across disorders (e.g., Modeling, Biofeedback, or Turn Taking) also are alphabetized. Such specific techniques generally are described at their main alphabetical entry (e.g., Modeling under M). When appropriate, the reader also is referred to the disorders for which the techniques are especially appropriate. For most disorders, a general and composite treatment procedure is described first. For example, there is a general treatment program described for Stuttering, Treatment or Language Disorders in Children. Following this description of a generic treatment procedure, specific techniques or treatment programs are described (e.g., treating auditory comprehension problems in aphasia, pragmatic problems in language disorders in children, or rate reduction in stuttering; and such treatment programs as Helm Elicited Program for Syntax Stimulation or the Monterey Fluency Program). Organization of entries varies somewhat for different disorders, but an example of a general organization used in the guide follows: Articulation and Phonological Disorders. (Definition) A General Articulation Treatment Procedure Treatment of Articulation and Phonological Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs Behavioral Approaches Contrast Approach Cycles Approach Distinctive Feature Approach Multiple Phoneme Approach Paired Stimuli Approach Phonological Knowledge Approach Phonological Process Approach Sensory Motor Approach Traditional Approach

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Preface Many treatment concepts and procedures are crossreferenced. All cross-referenced entries are underlined in burgundy. Therefore, the reader who comes across an underlined term can look up that term in a different place or context. How to Use This PocketGuide There are two methods for the clinician to use this guide. In the first method, the clinician looks up treatment procedures by disorders in their alphabetical order; an Abbreviated Contents: Entries by Disorders on page v will quickly refer the reader to specific communication disorders described in the guide. Treatment procedures of the following major disorders are described in their alphabetical order: Aphasia Apraxia of Speech Articulation and Phonological Disorders Cerebral Palsy Cleft Palate Cluttering Dementia Dysarthria Dysphagia Hearing Impairment Language Disorders in Children Laryngectomy Right Hemisphere Syndrome Stuttering Traumatic Brain Injury Voice Disorders Under each of the main entries for major disorders, the clinician may look up subentries or specific types of disorders. For example, under Dysarthria, the clinician will find the following alphabetized subentries and their treatment procedures:

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Preface Ataxic Dysarthria Flaccid Dysarthria Hyperkinetic Dysarthria Hypokinetic Dysarthria Mixed Dysarthria Spastic Dysarthria Unilateral Upper Motor Neuron Dysarthria In the second method, the clinician looks up treatment procedures by their name. For example, the clinician can look up such specific treatment techniques as the following in their alphabetic order: Activity-Based Language Intervention Airflow Management in Stuttering Augmentative Communication Behavioral Momentum Child-Centered Approaches to Language Intervention Collaborative Model Conversational Repair Delayed Auditory Feedback Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behaviors (DRA) Environmental Language Intervention Strategy Event Structure Functional Equivalence Training Joint-Action Routines Incidental Teaching Method Isolated Therapy Model Mand-Model Melodic Intonation Therapy Narrative Skills Training Prolonged Speech x

Preface Rate Reduction in Treating Dysarthria Whole Language Approach and so forth. If appropriate, the reader who finds a specific treatment technique in the general alphabetized order is referred to the specific disorder for which the technique is relevant. A Caveat Serious attempts have been made to include most treatment techniques described in the literature. However, the author is aware that not all techniques have been included. Some have been excluded because of their transparent lack of logic, appropriateness, or even an expectation of desirable effects. A few are defined because they are popular or being advocated. However, they are not described fully because of the presence of strong negative evidence. Most important, in any task such as this that requires encyclopedic review of literature, omission of a procedure that deserves inclusion is an acknowledged and unintended limitation. The reader may be more often correct in assuming that a technique was omitted inadvertently than to assume that it was considered and rejected. The author did not set for himself the impossible goal of including all treatment techniques. The practical goal was shaped more by such descriptors or qualifiers of treatment techniques as the most, the major, the generally effective, the most widely practiced, and so forth. Such qualifiers necessarily involve judgment, with which clinicians will disagree. If some techniques included do not meet these qualifiers, that is fine; the author would rather err in that direction. Conversely, errors of omission are correctable through future revisions of this book. Therefore, the author is open to suggestions from clinicians and researchers. Although most treatment techniques in communicative disorder are in need of treatment effectiveness or efficacy data, those that are especially deficient are noted in their description xi

Preface or definition. Those treatment techniques that have especially strong supportive evidence also are noted. In most cases, unfortunately, information on effects and efficacy is unavailable or ambiguous. This guide is not a means of evaluating treatment techniques; such evaluation is solely the responsibility of the clinician who selects treatment techniques. To help the clinician make such evaluations, procedures and experimental designs that are used in treatment efficacy research are included in this guide. Also included are suggested Treatment Selection Criteria. Abbreviation Used Throughout the Book PGASLP: Hegde’s PocketGuide to Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology (2nd ed.) by M. N. Hegde (2001). San Diego, CA: Singular Thomson Learning.

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ABA Design A ABA Design. A single-subject research design used to evaluate treatment effects; a target behavior is first baserated (A), taught with the procedure to be evaluated (B), and then reduced (A) by withdrawing treatment to show that the teaching was effective. ● Baserate the target behavior to be taught ● Apply the new treatment to be evaluated ● When the target behavior increases, withdraw treatment ● Chart the results to show that the results for the baserate and withdrawal conditions were similar but those for the treatment condition were different.

ABAB Design. A single-subject research design used to evaluate treatment efficacy; a target behavior is first baserated (A), taught by applying the treatment program (B), reduced by withdrawing or reversing the treatment (A), and then taught again by reapplying the treatment (B) to show that the teaching was effective. The design has two versions: Reversal and Withdrawal. ● Baserate the behavior to be taught ● Apply the new treatment to be evaluated for the target behavior ● Briefly, apply treatment to another behavior or simply withdraw treatment ● Again treat the target behavior ● Chart the results to show that the two no treatment conditions were convincingly different from the two treatment conditions.

ABAB Reversal Design. A single-subject design for evaluating treatment effects; a desirable behavior is baserated (A), taught (B), reduced by teaching its counterpart (A), and then taught again (B) to show that the teaching was effective. ● Baserate the behavior to be taught ● Apply the new treatment to be evaluated for the target behavior 2

ABAB Withdrawal Design A ● Briefly, apply treatment to an incompatible behavior ● Again treat the target behavior ● Chart the results to show that the behavior varied accord-

ing to the treatment and reversal operations

ABAB Withdrawal Design. A single-subject research design for evaluating treatment effects; a desirable behavior is baserated (A), taught (B), reduced by withdrawing the treatment (A), and then taught again (B) to show that teaching was effective. ● Baserate the target behavior to be taught ● Apply the new treatment to be evaluated ● When the behavior increases, withdraw treatment ● Reapply treatment to the target behavior ● Chart the results to show that the behavior varied according to the treatment and withdrawal operations Hegde, M. N. (1994). Clinical research in communicative disorders: Principles and strategies (2nd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Abduction. Separation of the vocal folds. Adduction. Approximation of the vocal folds. Agraphia. Loss or impairment of writing skills associated with cerebral pathology or injury; may be associated with reading problems (Alexia); not the same as writing problems found in children; often found in patients with aphasia; for treatment procedures, see Treatment of Aphasia: Writing Problems; see PGASLP for description of different types and assessment procedures.

Airflow Management. A stuttering treatment target; includes inhalation of air, slight exhalation before initiating phonation, and sustained air flow throughout an utterance; for procedures see Stuttering, Treatment; Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Alaryngeal Speech. Speech without a biological larynx; a mode of communication for persons whose larynges have 3

Alerting Stimuli A been surgically removed; may be electronically assisted, pneumatically assisted, or esophageal; for treatment procedures, see Laryngectomy.

Alerting Stimuli. Various means of drawing the client’s attention to the imminent treatment stimuli; include such statements as ‘‘Get ready! Here comes the picture!’’ or ‘‘Look at me, I am about to show you how,’’ or such nonverbal cues as touching the client’s hand just before presenting a stimulus.

Alexia. Reading problems in children and adults; in children, often due to inadequate instruction or learning disabilities; in adults, often due to neurological problems and is associated with aphasia, dementia, and related disorders; some use the term dyslexia synonymous with alexia; others apply the term dyslexia to reading problems in children whose instruction is adequate; may be associated with writing problems (Agraphia) in some, isolated in others; for treatment of alexia in patients with neurological communication disorders, see Treatment of Aphasia: Reading Problems; see PGASLP for description of different types of alexia and their assessment.

Alphabet Board. A communication board with the alphabet printed on it; may also contain a few words and sentences; the client simultaneously speaks and points to the first letter of each spoken word printed and displayed on the board; helps slow down the rate of speech in clients whose speech rate is excessive (e.g., clients with hypokinetic dysarthria).

Alphabet Board Supplementation.

A technique used in reducing the speech rate and thus improving intelligibility in clients with dysarthria; to reduce rate, the method requires clients to point to the first letter of each word on an alphabet board. ● Arrange an alphabet board with large capital letters ● Ask the client to point to the first letter of each word to be spoken on the board

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Alternating Motion Rates (AMR) A Yorkston, K. M., Beukelman, D. R., Strand, E. A., & Bell, K. R. (1999). Management of motor speech disorders in children and adults. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Alternating Motion Rates (AMR). A measure of the speed with which certain syllables (e.g., ‘‘puh, puh, puh’’) are repeated when asked to; the same as the diadochokinetic rate; used in the assessment of dysarthria or articulation disorders in children; see PGASLP for assessment procedures.

Alternative Communication.

Methods of nonoral, nonvocal communication that serve as alternatives to oral speech and language; only in a few extreme cases are the methods totally alternative; most nonoral, nonvocal means of communication augment oral and vocal communication; treatment techniques described under Augmentative Communication, a term some prefer.

Alzheimer’s Disease.

A degenerative neurological disorder caused by Neurofibrillary Tangles, Neuritic Plaques, Granulovacuolar Degeneration, and neurochemical changes; characterized by deterioration in behavior, cognition, memory, language, communication, and personality; most common of the irreversible dementias; consider the following suggestions and see Dementia for management details:

Management of Patients With Alzheimer’s Disease: General Guidelines ● A thorough assessment of not only the patient, but also

of the family resources and needs is necessary before rehabilitation can be started; see the cited sources and the PGASLP ● Management of symptoms and behaviors of the patient for as long as possible is a practical clinical goal of rehabilitation ● Counseling and supporting the family and teaching them the skills to cope with the disease are important elements of rehabilitation

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Alzheimer’s Disease A ● Finding resources and services for disadvantaged fami-

lies and ethnoculturally diverse families is a part of rehabilitation ● Putting the family in touch with local support groups and national information centers on dementia and Alzheimer’s disease is useful to the families ● Some patients with Alzheimer’s disease may have a slow progression with several years of relatively stable behavior patterns; rehabilitation efforts with such patients and their families may be especially productive ● Family members and caregivers should not automatically assume that a patient with Alzheimer’s disease is incapable of making decisions in the early and middle stages of the disease Working With Caregivers and Family Members Ask caregivers and family members to: ● Use good lighting when communicating with the patient, especially if the patient has a visual-perceptual deficit ● Initiate interaction in a helpful manner • approach the patient within his or her visual field; do not surprise the patient • establish eye contact before speaking • always identify yourself before you start saying something; remind the patient about your earlier encounters, activities done together, and so forth • speak slowly to the patient ● Keep communication at a simple level but not overly simplified • keep your instructions simple and direct • use gestures, smile, and posture to enhance your verbal communication • ask the patient to do one thing at a time; avoid multiple and sequentially given commands • speak clearly

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be redundant, restate important information keep topic familiar and observable speak in simple, short sentences repeat instructions every time you ask a patient to do something • have all caregiving staff use similar expressions, directions, and instructions • always say ‘‘good-bye’’ or give other departing signals Be consistent with standard expressions • use the same spoken phrases to inform the client about routine tasks (e.g., say, ‘‘Let’s go out’’ when it is time to go out and say ‘‘Your food is ready’’ when it is time to eat) • use the same greetings every morning • use the same phrase at night (e.g., ‘‘Good night’’ or ‘‘Let’s go to bed’’) Make sure the patient understood what you just said before saying more • ask questions about what you just said • let the patient restate what you said • ask questions about actions you asked the patient to perform Keep the patient’s day structured • reduce variability in daily activities • schedule activities at the same times every day (e.g., serve meals at the same time every day; have specific times for bathing; wake up the patient the same time every morning; schedule recreational activities for the same time every day) Simplify the patient’s living environment • remove unnecessary items or objects the patient does not use from the bedroom • remove unnecessary clothing items from the closet and the chest of drawers

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Alzheimer’s Disease A • keep only the shoes he or she uses • reduce desktop, coffee table, and countertop clutter ● Provide printed prompts for actions • print the patient’s daily schedule on a poster board • post it in more than one, conspicuous place • teach the patient to consult the schedule frequently (note that just posting notices may not do any good to the patient who may not consult them) • print only the essential information; keep displays simple ● Help support the patient’s continued orientation to time, place, persons, and events • help support the patient’s familiar activities, interests, and hobbies (let the patient watch his or her familiar TV shows, listen to music, engage in recreational activities) • make recent pictures of family members, family cars, home, and so forth and show them frequently to the patient to help keep orientation • frequently ask orientation questions (e.g., ‘‘Where are you?’’ ‘‘What day is it today?’’ ‘‘What time is it?’’); reinforce the patient’s correct answers; model and have the client imitate correct answers if the responses are incorrect • ask multiple choice questions about orientation (e.g., ‘‘Is this Friday or Saturday?’’ ‘‘Are you at home or in a hospital?’’) • post printed signs about the place, date, month, and year in clear view of the patient and in multiple settings; teach the patient to use them frequently • frequently remind the patient about the day, date, time, month, and so forth • post a larger calendar the patient can see often and mark the current day with a color border or some such device 8

Alzheimer’s Disease A • keep up the patient’s habit of looking at the clocks and reading the time; reinforce the client for correctly reading the time • keep a map of frequently visited places (e.g., homes of relatives and friends, shops, restaurants) • when prompting the patient to perform an action or attend an event, remind him or her of the day and time as well (e.g., ‘‘It’s 3 o’clock on Tuesday; time to watch the ------ show on TV.’’) • note that orientation problems are confounded with memory impairments; therefore, help sustain memory skills to the extent possible ● Minimize stimulation and reduce the frequency of events that disrupt the patient’s behaviors • reduce noise and loud music • have only a few people visit at any one time • reduce or eliminate loud and big parties • eliminate any chaotic situation • teach grandchildren to play more quietly around the patient ● Reduce or eliminate products and situations that pose danger to the patient • lower the thermostat on the hot water heater to reduce the danger of burning while taking a shower • keep all chemical cleaners, medications, manual and power tools (e.g., hammers, all kinds of saws, lawn mowers, grass edgers, sledgehammers and such other tools in the garage) out of the patient’s reach and preferably under lock and key • remove stove knobs or install special devices to turn them on • keep the family car keys in a secured place Direct Management of Communication and Memory Skills ● Teach superordinate category names (e.g., tools and furniture) instead of basic level names (e.g., socket 9

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wrench and footstool ) because superordinate category names appear to be relatively unaffected Teach compensatory strategies for lost functions Teach gestures as a means of communicating Use intensive auditory stimulation Provide new information that is an extension of the familiar Develop a theme for each treatment session Use praise that is appropriate for an adult Speak slowly during direct treatment sessions Wait for a sign that the client has understood before progressing to the next topic Manage the memory skills • teach the client to use a Memory Log • use techniques described under Memory Impairments See Dementia for additional suggestions

Brookshire, R. H. (1997). Introduction to neurogenic communication disorders (5th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Mosby. Hegde, M. N. (1998). A coursebook on aphasia and other neurogenic language disorders (2nd ed.). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.

American Indian Hand Talk (AMER-IND). A system of nonverbal communication used by Native Americans to communicate with members of other tribes with different languages; a manual interlanguage; the signs represent ideas and many are pictographic; gestures may be produced in series to express more complex ideas, called agglutination; many signs are one-handed; used in teaching Augmentative Communication, Gestural (Unaided). American Sign Language (ASL or AMESLAN). A highly developed manual (gestural) language used mostly by deaf persons in the United States; a communication target for certain nonverbal or minimally verbal persons; each sign or gesture may represent a letter of the English alphabet, a word, or a phrase; signs provide phonemic, morphologic, 10

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) A and syntactic information; used in teaching Augmentative Communication, Gestural (Unaided).

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ASL). A progressive neurological disease in which the upper and lower motor neurons degenerate; initial symptoms vary depending on the neurons involved, but in the final stages all levels of motor neurons are involved; symptoms of the final stage include severe impairment of movement; one of the several causes of dysarthria.

Analogies. Logical inferences that are based on the assumption that if two things are similar in certain aspects, then they must be alike in other aspects.

Anomia. Difficulty in naming people, places, or things; a major symptom of Aphasia.

Antecedents. Events that occur before responses; stimuli or events the clinician presents in treatment. Antecedents may be: ● Objects ● Pictures ● Re-created or enacted events ● Instructions, demonstrations, modeling, prompting, manual guidance, and other special stimuli

Aphasia. A language disorder caused by recent brain injury in which (a) all aspects of language comprehension and production are impaired to varying degrees (a nontypological definition); (b) one or more aspects of language comprehension and language production may be affected (a typological definition).

Treatment of Aphasia: General Guidelines

● Conduct a detailed assessment; see the cited sources and

PGASLP

● Reduce the effects of the residual deficits on the personal,

emotional, social, family, and occupational aspects of the client’s life 11

Aphasia: General Guidelines A ● Teach compensatory strategies (e.g., signing, gestures) ● Counsel family members to help them cope with the re-

sidual deficits

● Give a realistic prognosis that modifies the clients’ and the

family members’ expectations

● Structure the treatment and let the client repeatedly prac-

tice the target behaviors

● Develop a variety of client-specific treatment procedures ● Exploit the client’s strengths (e.g., use the stronger visual

mode to supplement the weaker auditory mode)

● Judge when it is not useful or ethical to continue the

treatment

● Observe the client carefully ● Choose client-specific target behaviors that enhance func-

tional communication rather than grammatical correctness

● Sequence target behaviors in treatment ● Move from simple to complex tasks ● Use such extra stimuli as instructions, prompts, modeling,

pictures, and objects in initial stages of treatment

● Fade extra stimuli used in treatment ● Use only natural stimuli (e.g., only a question, not a

prompt) to evoke speech in later stages of treatment

● Program natural consequences for functional communica-

tion targets (e.g., smile and approval to reinforce verbal expressions; real objects to reinforce requests for objects) ● Provide immediate, response-contingent feedback ● Encourage the client to self-monitor ● Train family members to evoke, prompt, reinforce, and maintain communicative behaviors

Treatment of Aphasia: Ethnocultural Guidelines Consider the ethnocultural, linguistic, and economic background of the client in planning treatment. There is little or no controlled experimental research on the effectiveness of different treatment approaches when applied to different ethnocultural clients with aphasia. However, the clinician should: 12

Aphasia: Ethnocultural Guidelines A ● Gain an understanding of the client’s family and its eco-

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nomic resources to pay for extended treatment, afford regular transportation, ability and willingness to keep regular appointments Help find public and private resources that support a client’s continued treatment and rehabilitation Assess the family members’ educational level, emphasis on communication skills, and their willingness and time available for helping the client Understand the client’s family constellation and communication patterns (e.g., living in an extended family; the client’s role in educating and raising grandchildren) Evaluate client’s linguistic background and especially if the client speaks a different dialect or form of standard English (e.g., African American English or Spanish-influenced English); premorbid literacy level and the current need for literacy skills (e.g., Does the client need treatment for reading and writing or will functional communication suffice?) Assess communication needs of a bilingual client in both languages or, at the least, in the dominant language Select treatment targets that are functional and effective in the client’s natural environment and are appropriate for the communicative needs of the client and the family Select treatment stimuli that are available in the client’s home, and, if appropriate, work environment Carefully describe the treatment procedures and note the effects they produce or fail to produce; modify the treatment procedure in light of the client’s performance and ethnocultural background

Payne, J. C. (1997). Adult neurogenic language disorders: Assessment and treatment. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.

Treatment of Aphasia: Auditory Comprehension In planning auditory comprehension treatment, consider the following factors that promote better comprehension in an aphasic patient: 13

Aphasia: Auditory Comprehension A ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

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More frequently used words Nouns rather than verbs, adjectives, and adverbs Picturable verbs and other words Unambiguous pictures Shorter sentences Syntactically simpler sentences Active sentences Personally relevant information Slower speech with frequent pauses Slower rate with additional stress on key terms Speech in quieter environment Redundant messages Repeated verbal messages Connected speech rather than isolated words or sentences Limited response choices Accompanied auditory stimuli with appropriate visual stimuli Visibility of the speaker’s face Alerting Stimuli presented before the evoking stimulus is presented (e.g., ‘‘Look at my face.’’ ‘‘Here comes the picture.’’). In treating auditory comprehension, avoid the following that are known to be detrimental to improved auditory comprehension: Louder speech, which is generally ineffective Telephone presentations, which may have a negative effect in some clients Audio- or videotaped presentations, which are ineffective

Sequence of Auditory Comprehension Treatment Comprehension of Single Words Ask the client to point to: ● Body parts ● Objects ● Pictures of objects ● Clothing items ● Food items ● Actions in pictures 14

Aphasia: Auditory Comprehension A Comprehension of Spoken Sentences Accept an appropriate verbal or nonverbal (gestural) response that suggests comprehension. Treat comprehension of: ● Simpler sentences before more complex sentences ● More redundant sentences before less redundant sentences ● Sentences with familiar information before those with unfamiliar information Comprehension of Spoken Questions Ask questions of the following kind and accept a correct verbal or nonverbal response of any length or complexity: ● Concrete yes/no questions (‘‘Are you sitting in the wheelchair?’’) ● Abstract yes/no questions (‘‘Is a plant bigger than a tree?’’) ● Simpler open-ended questions (‘‘What pet do you have?’’) ● More complex open-ended questions (‘‘How many states are in the United States?’’) Comprehension of Spoken Directions ● Start with pointing to, and manipulation of, objects: • point to single objects (nouns) or actions in pictures (single verbs) • point to objects in sequence (‘‘Point to the pen and then the paper.’’) • manipulate stimuli in sequence (‘‘Point to the pen and then lift up the paper.’’) • manipulate objects according to directions (‘‘Put the ball in the box.’’) ● Use Manual Guidance if the client cannot point to the pictures (e.g., take the client’s hand and make it touch the requested objects) Comprehension of Discourse Target such skills as: 15

Aphasia: Verbal Expression A ● Understanding narratives (e.g., tell or read a short

story aloud and ask questions to test comprehension of details and the main story idea) ● Understanding questions in a conversational format (asking questions about personal interests and hobbies while engaging the client in conversational speech)

Treatment of Aphasia: Verbal Expression Treatment of Naming: Designing Problem-Specific Strategies Design treatment to suit the kind of anomia present: ● Word production anomia: Anomia due mainly to motor problems; often does not need direct treatment; provide such simple cues as the first sound of target words. ● Word selection anomia: Clients can describe, gesture, write, and draw to suggest a word they cannot say or can correctly recognize the name when given; cueing, including gestures, descriptions, and drawing is not very effective. ● Semantic anomia: Patients do not recognize the words they cannot produce; train word recognition. ● Limited anomia: Disconnection anomias; such category-specific problems as difficulty naming animals or vegetables; pair unimpaired skills with impaired naming. ● Delayed response: Presumably due to the slow activation of the naming process; shape progressively faster reaction time. ● Self-corrected errors: Prompting might be effective; reinforce self-correction. ● Perseveration: Persisting errors; reduce their frequency. ● Unrelated words: Irrelevant responses; reduce their frequency. Paraphasias: Unintended word or sound substitutions; reduce their frequency by increasing the production of target words. 16

Aphasia: Naming A Treatment of Naming: General Considerations Use stimuli or strategies that facilitate correct naming: ● High frequency words ● Names of manipulable objects ● Names of objects rather than pictures ● Realistic drawings rather than line or abstract drawings ● Phonemic cues ● Client-regulation of stimulus presentation ● Extra time to respond ● Longer (30 seconds or more) stimulus exposure time ● Simultaneous visual and auditory stimulus presentation Treatment of Naming: Targets and Techniques Confrontation Naming: Treatment Procedure. Confrontation naming is naming an object when asked ‘‘What is this?’’ ● Start with more familiar objects and move on to less familiar objects ● Place a picture or an objects in front of the client ● Ask ‘‘What is this?’’ ● Prompt the correct response ● Reinforce the correct response Naming in General: Treatment Procedure ● Use cueing hierarchies (Response evoking stimuli arranged in hierarchies) ● Find a stimulus (cue) that evokes the response ● Use a stronger cue only when weaker cues do not evoke the response ● Start with a few cues and add more only when necessary ● Use different types of cues ● Fade the cue so that natural stimuli come to evoke the response Types of Cues Modeling ● Ask a question (‘‘What is this?’’) 17

Aphasia: Naming A ● Immediately model the response (‘‘Say, a

book.’’)

● Let the client imitate ● Reinforce the client for correct imitation

Sentence completion tasks as cues: Give parts of sentences as cues. .’’ Clinician (CN): ‘‘You write with a Client (CT): ‘‘Pen.’’ CN: ‘‘ You write with a ball-point

.’’

CT: ‘‘Pen.’’ Initial sound of words as cues: Give initial sounds as cues. CN: ‘‘You write with a (pause); the word starts with a p .’’ CT: ‘‘Pen.’’ Syllables as cues: Give syllables of words as cues when the sound cue is not effective. CN: ‘‘This is a spoo

.’’

CT: ‘‘Spoon.’’ Silent phonetic gestures as cues: Give articulatory postures without vocalizations as cues. CN: ‘‘This is a for p).

.’’ (silent articulatory posture

CT: ‘‘Pen.’’ Functional descriptions as cues: Give a description of the use of an object as its cues. CN: ‘‘This is a round object that you roll or kick. What do you call it?’’ CT: ‘‘Ball.’’ Description and demonstration of an action as cues: Request the target name, describe its use, and demonstrate an action as cues. 18

Aphasia: Naming A CN: ‘‘What is this? You use this to write’’ (demonstrate writing). CT: ‘‘Pen.’’ Client description as cues: Ask a client to first say what an object is used for and then name it. CN: ‘‘Tell me what you use this for and then tell me its name.’’ CT: ‘‘I use it to write. It is a pen.’’ Patient’s demonstration of functions as cues: Ask the client to first demonstrate the function of an object and then name it. CN: ‘‘Show me how you use this and then tell me the name.’’ CT: Demonstrates the action of drinking and then says ‘‘cup.’’ Objects or pictures with their printed names as cues: Present an object or a picture with its printed name and ask the client to name it. CN: Presents a book (or a picture of a book), the printed word book, and then asks the client, ‘‘What is this?’’ CT: ‘‘Book.’’ Patient’s oral spelling as cues: Ask the client to spell a word orally and then say the word (name). Patient’s spelling and writing as cues: Ask the client to spell a word, write it, and then say it. An associated sound as a cue: Present a sound associated with an object and then ask the client to name it. An associated smell as a cue: Present an object and let the client smell the fragrance typically 19

Aphasia: Naming A associated with it and then ask the client to name it. A synonym as a cue: Say ‘‘dwelling’’ to evoke the word ‘‘house’’ from the patient. An antonym as a cue: Say ‘‘woman’’ to evoke the word ‘‘man.’’ A typically associated word as a cue. Say, ‘‘plate’’ to evoke the word ‘‘cup.’’ A superordinate as a cue: Say ‘‘It is something you eat’’ to evoke ‘‘cake.’’ A rhyming word as a cue: Say ‘‘It rhymes with hog’’ to evoke ‘‘dog.’’ Deblocking: Direct and Indirect. Treating naming or word-finding problems in clients with aphasia by presenting a variety of stimuli to which the person can respond and then presenting the target stimulus for the client to respond to. Direct deblocking: Present several unrelated words along with the target word (e.g., say several words along with ‘‘cup’’; then ask the client to name the picture of a cup) Indirect deblocking: Present a word typically associated with a target word and then ask the client to produce it; do not present the target word (e.g., say ‘‘woman’’ to evoke the word ‘‘wife’’). Fade the special cues: Gradually reduce the amount and extent of cues and ask typical questions to evoke naming; reinstate previously successful cues when necessary; again, try to fade them out. Teach self-cueing: Teach the client to first produce an antonym, a synonym, or an associated word that may lead to the target word; teach the client to first spell the word, de20

Aphasia: Expansion Expressions A scribe the use, demonstrate the use that may lead to the target word; teach the client to self-generate effective cues in natural settings.

Treatment of Aphasia: Expansion of Verbal Expressions. Expand words into phrases, phrases into sentences, and sentences into narratives and conversational speech. For expansion, select verbal expressions that are: ● Most useful to the client and his or her caregivers ● Most effective in expressing personal experiences, basic needs, emotions, and thoughts ● Most meaningful in social contexts to sustain conversation Teach Verbal Expressions ● While asking the client to describe scenes in a picture, model simple sentences for the client to imitate ● Fade the model and ask a question to evoke the sentence the client imitated ● Ask questions about the client’s daily activities ● Ask the client to describe actions in a picture ● Supply functional words and ask the client to make sentences with those words ● Tell a story and ask the client to retell it ● Tell a story and ask questions about the details ● Show sequenced pictures and ask the client to construct a story ● Give such cues as ‘‘say more’’’ or ‘‘elaborate on that’’ to have the client expand limited expressions ● Ask the client to describe such familiar tasks as making an omelet, planting flowers, or changing flat tires ● Engage the client in more naturalistic conversation ● Have family members engage the client in conversation in and out of the treatment setting ● Reinforce the client for correct or functionally appropriate productions 21

Aphasia: Functional Communication A ● Give corrective feedback (‘‘That is not correct’’; ‘‘That

was a wrong word’’; or ‘‘How about this

?’’)

● Repeat successful trials several times to strengthen the

responses

Treatment of Aphasia: Functional Communication and Maintenance Functional communication skills are those that are useful in social situations; final targets of aphasia treatment; in addition to the following generic treatment procedure, consider using one of several special programs described later in this section under Treatment of Aphasia: Specific Techniques or Programs; integrate compatible procedures. ● Target communication as opposed to linguistic accuracy ● Select words, phrases, and sentences that are most useful: • for the client and his or her caregivers • in expressing the client’s personal experiences, bodily needs, emotions, and thoughts • in simple, everyday social situations and conversational contexts ● Design client-specific treatment programs in which you shape progressively longer utterances ● Start with what the client can say, perhaps a few words or even syllables ● Add other syllables to create words, or words to create phrases ● Add additional words to create sentences ● Evoke a variety of sentence structures • noun and verb combinations • active declarative sentences • requests, commands, demands • wh-questions • structures with adjectives • structures with comparatives • yes/no questions

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Aphasia: Functional Communication A ● ● ● ●

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• structures with prepositions, pronouns, present progressives, and so forth Use special stimuli that are necessary (pictures, modeling, prompting, and so forth) Fade the special stimuli out, and fade in the naturalistic stimuli Reinforce the client productions Move to conversational speech • engage the client in meaningful, functional conversation • ask the client to describe personal experiences, hobbies, professional experiences, family-related events, favorite foods, entertainment, books read, vacations taken, and so forth • narrate a story and ask the client to retell it • role play Turn Taking • reinforce the client for staying on a topic; extend the duration of Topic Maintenance Implement a maintenance program • train the client to generate his or her own cues for better speech ➞ teach the client to self-monitor ➞ implement treatment in naturalistic settings ➞ use natural response consequences • conduct group sessions in which the clients learn to monitor and reinforce each other’s verbal or nonverbal expressions • train health care professionals to support and socially reinforce the communicative behaviors • train family members to ➞ evoke and reinforce speech ➞ reduce demands when it is appropriate ➞ pay attention to the client’s strengths ➞ express emotional support for the client ➞ include the client in communicative and other social activities

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Aphasia: Reading/Writing Problems A Treatment of Aphasia: Reading Problems Treatment of reading problems may or may not be a major part of aphasia rehabilitation. When it is, use the following guidelines: ● Assess whether reading skills are important for the client ● Consider the level of premorbid reading skills and the current need to read ● Depending on the need, teach functional reading skills to persons who have mild or moderate aphasia ● Target comprehension of silently read material rather than oral reading ● Select client-specific, basic, and functional (survival) reading skills for treatment ● Target newspaper- and book-reading skills only when functional and basic reading skills are intact ● Teach comprehension of printed words in the beginning • Have the client read aloud selected printed words • Model and prompt the responses • Repeat successful trials for each word • Have the client read the words silently and state their meaning • Provide positive reinforcement and corrective feedback ● Construct phrases and sentences with words already comprehended ● Have the client read those phrases and sentences aloud with the help of modeling and prompting ● Have the client read them silently and state their meanings ● Present progressively complex reading material and assess comprehension at each level of complexity

Treatment of Aphasia: Writing Problems Treatment of writing problems may or may not be a major part of aphasia rehabilitation. When it is, use the following guidelines:

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Aphasia: Apraxic Speech A ● Assess whether writing skills are important for the

client

● Consider the level of premorbid writing skills and the

current need to write

● Depending on the need, teach functional writing skills

to persons who have mild or moderate aphasia

● Consider the preferred hand and whether it is free from

neuromuscular disorders

● Consult with the client, family members, and other care-

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givers to select words, phrases, and sentences that are important to the client and are useful in his or her daily living (e.g., names of family members, address and phone numbers, grocery lists, short letters, filling-out forms, writing down appointments) Target correct spelling of words and grammatical accuracy of sentences Name a target alphabet and have the client point to its printed form Name a target word and have the client point to its printed form Have the client trace printed letters and words Have the client copy letters and words Have the client write letters and words to dictation Have the client copy sentences Have the client spontaneously write sentences Have the client write paragraphs, short letters, lists, and so forth Give writing homework the client completes Train family members to help sustain the writing skills at home

Treatment of Aphasia: Apraxic Speech in Persons With Aphasia Persons with aphasia are likely to exhibit verbal apraxia or Apraxia of Speech, especially those who have Broca’s aphasia. Prognosis for severe apraxia beyond 4 weeks

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Aphasia: Specific Types A postonset is thought to be poor. In treating apraxic speech in patients with aphasia, use the following guidelines: ● Make a thorough assessment of apraxia and its severity as treatment procedures vary somewhat, depending on the severity ● Note that clients with aphasia and apraxia do not necessarily have sound discrimination problems ● Auditory discrimination training to improve apraxic symptoms are unnecessary and unproductive ● An early suggestion that persons with aphasia and apraxia are deficient in oral sensation and oral form recognition has not been sustained ● Treatment procedures described under Apraxia of Speech are appropriate for patients who have both aphasia and apraxia of speech Brookshire, R. H. (1997). Introduction to neurogenic communication disorders (5th ed.). St. Louis: Mosby. Chapey, R. (1994) (Ed.). Language intervention strategies in adult aphasia. Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins. Davis, G. A. (2000). Aphasiology. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Haskins, S. (1976). A treatment procedure for writing disorders. In R. H. Brookshire (Ed.), Clinical aphasiology conference proceedings (pp. 192–199). Minneapolis, MN: BRK. Hegde, M. N. (1998). A coursebook on neurogenic language disorders (2nd ed.). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. LaPointe, L. L. (Ed.) (1997). Aphasia and related neurogenic language disorders (2nd ed.). New York: Thieme. Rosenbek, J. C., LaPointe, L. L., & Wertz, R. T. (1989). Aphasia: A clinical approach. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Treatment of Aphasia: Specific Types of Aphasia Treatment suggestions offered for specific types of aphasia are based on the symptom complex and expert opinion. Substantive, experimentally validated treatment procedures that are specific to certain types of aphasia are limited. Treatment techniques with experimentally documented effects for such types as transcortical sensory aphasia and conduction aphasia are lacking. Clinicians 26

Aphasia: Broca’s A generally design behavioral procedures to teach and strengthen skills that are impaired and are judged appropriate for remediation in a given client. Broca’s Aphasia. A type of aphasia characterized by nonfluent, effortful speech with missing grammatical elements; marked difficulty in naming; slow rate of speech and limited word output; limited syntax; better auditory comprehension; may have associated dysarthria and apraxia of speech; usually associated with lesions in the third frontal convolution of the left or dominant hemisphere. ● Use procedures described under Aphasia; Treatment of Aphasia: Verbal Expression; specifically: • Increase length of utterances in gradual steps • Increase complexity of responses in gradual steps • Decrease grammatical errors • Treat naming difficulties • Decrease stereotypic utterances by giving corrective feedback • Use modeling • Model progressively longer utterances and ask the client to imitate • Teach nouns and verbs on successive trials • Provide immediate, positive feedback • Ask questions to evoke responses • Encourage pointing, gestures, drawing, writing, and reading to improve verbal expression • Teach a sign language system (e.g., AMER-IND) if necessary ● In addition, consider the following: • Combine gestures with verbal expressions as this combination is known to facilitate naming and other verbal expressions • Teach self-cueing strategies • Find out the compensatory strategies a client uses (e.g., singing, gesturing, or writing key words to 27

Aphasia: Global A effectively communicate) and incorporate them into training; reinforce their use in and out of the clinic • Reinforce even telegraphic productions and then model more complete productions using the client’s telegraphic productions • Reinforce the client’s imitation of more complete productions • Select one of the special programs described under Aphasia; Treatment of Aphasia: Special Programs (e.g., A Program of Changing Criteria, the Helm Elicited Language Program for Syntax Stimulation, or Promoting Aphasics’ Communicative Effectiveness or Response Elaboration Training) Global Aphasia. A type of aphasia characterized by severe deficits in comprehension and production of language; all sensory modalities may be affected; caused by widespread damage to language areas of the brain. ● Note that traditional aphasia therapy for some very severely globally aphasic patients may not be effective or appropriate; in such cases, train the health care staff and family members to: • be alert to the patient’s communicative efforts of any kind including eye contact, head nodding, facial expressions, postures, simple gestures, and so forth • not to expect linguistic accuracy and expansions • eliminate distractions while talking to the client • face the client while talking to him or her • draw the client’s attention before each attempt at communication • speak slowly • pause at syntactic junctures and between stimulus presentations • use appropriate stress and intonation • use short, simple sentences; simplify all messages • pause between sentences 28

Aphasia: Global A • • • •

use nonverbal cues to improve communication allow extra time for the client to respond be unhurried verbally state the guessed response from the client so he or she can confirm it • let the client know if there is difficulty in understanding him or her (e.g., ‘‘I am sorry, I do not understand.’’) To implement a more formal treatment program: ● Establish realistic goals for the client ● Use procedures to improve auditory comprehension of simple commands and requests ● Select basic, simple, functional words and phrases for initial treatment ● Teach yes/no responses to basic questions ● Teach a few unequivocal gestures to express basic needs ● Teach simple line drawing to express basic needs ● Select words and phrases that express basic needs ● Accept any mode of response: verbal, gestural, or signed ● Provide both auditory and visual stimulation; combine verbal responses with gestures ● Provide multiple stimuli (modeling, pictures, written stimuli, objects, gestures) ● Begin treatment with modeling and require immediate imitation ● Ask for delayed imitation later; give the client time to respond ● Fade modeling and other additional stimuli ● Shape the response to achieve more complex forms if found appropriate ● Provide manual guidance in shaping gestures, nodding the head, and pointing to objects ● Give prompt, natural, and social reinforcement ● Teach responses to simple questions 29

Aphasia: Transcortical Motor A ● Teach simple requests ● Teach simple descriptions ● Move to basic conversational skills training if judged

appropriate

● Improve writing skills if found necessary and ap-

propriate

● Teach an organized gestural system and consider

techniques described under Augmentative Communication (including AMER-IND, Communication Boards, and Blissymbolics). ● Consider one of the special programs (Aphasia; Treatment of Aphasia: Special Programs, including Visual Action Therapy and Gestural Reorganization) ● Counsel the family about the effects of stroke, the communication problems and prospects of treatment, home strategies to enhance communication, and so forth Collins, M. (1991). Diagnosis and treatment of global aphasia. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.

Transcortical Motor Aphasia. A type of nonfluent aphasia characterized by agrammatic, paraphasic, and telegraphic speech; distinguishing feature is intact repetition; lesion is typically outside Broca’s area, found often in the deep portions of the left frontal lobe or below or above Broca’s area. Use imitation and naming to improve speaking ● Select pictures as stimuli • ask the client to say or write nouns and verbs that the pictures suggest • if the client fails, point out dominant aspects of the stimulus or prompt nouns and verbs • obtain from the client or supply three or more words for each picture ● Ask the client to form sentences with one of the words produced or supplied

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Aphasia: Wernicke’s A ● Ask the client to expand the sentence with other

words

● Reinforce all attempts in the right direction

Use relatively intact reading skills to prime or promote speaking ● Begin treatment sessions with client reading general printed materials aloud to deblock speaking ● Begin controlled conversational treatment after an extended period of reading ● Relate conversation to the reading if necessary, or unrelated if possible ● Have the client read selected utterances (prepared for the client) and then say them if general reading does not deblock speaking ● Have the client read more complex materials and answer questions about them ● Model if necessary ● Use story books with pictures, ask the client to first read the story, and then describe the pictures in the same book Rosenbek, J. C., LaPointe, L. L., & Wertz, R. T. (1989). Aphasia: A clinical approach. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Wernicke’s Aphasia. A type of fluent aphasia characterized by good or even excessive fluency of speech, rapid rate, normal articulation and prosody, good grammatical structures, paraphasia, neologism, jargon, and generally meaningless speech; poor auditory comprehension is a major distinguishing feature; the lesion is in Wernicke’s area. ● Reduce the impulsive and incessant talking: • structure the treatment sessions and reduce distracting stimuli • ask the client to listen • use gestures and manual guidance to stop the client from talking (touch your lips with your index

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finger to suggest ‘‘be quiet,’’ touch the client’s hand to make him or her stop talking) • ask yes/no questions and accept only such answers, not elaborate utterances Expand utterances in a controlled manner Train the client to listen carefully, instead of rushing to speak Reduce the rate of speech directed toward the client as this helps improve comprehension Train the client to reduce his or her rate of speech and self-monitor the rate Treat auditory comprehension deficits; use relevant procedures described under Treatment of Aphasia; Auditory Comprehension Use one of the special programs described under Aphasia; Treatment of Aphasia: Special Techniques or Programs, including Treatment for Wernicke’s Aphasia (TWA)

Graham-Keegan, L., & Caspari, I. (1997). Wernicke’s aphasia. In L. L. LaPointe (Ed.), Aphasia and related neurogenic language disorders (2nd ed.) (pp. 42–61). New York: Thieme.

Treatment of Aphasia: Specific Techniques or Programs Gestural Reorganization. A method of teaching verbal expression by first pairing them with gestures and then fading the gestures; described by J. Rosenbek, L. LaPointe, and R. Wertz. ● Select phrases or sentences for training ● Select gestures that mean the same as those target expressions • use gestures from American Indian Hand Talk (AMER-IND) or other systems • invent gestures that are appropriate for the expressions • explain the gestures and the treatment approach to the client 32

Aphasia: Specific Programs A ● Teach the gestures to the client

• ask the client to match your gesture • ask the client to match pictures of gestures • teach functional and spontaneous use of gestures ● Combine the learned gestures with speaking (verbal expression) • model the gesture and the verbal expression • model only one of them • use Manual Guidance if necessary (manually help form the gesture) • have the client practice the two separately, only if necessary; combine them ● Fade the gestures and continue to evoke and reinforce the verbal expressions Rosenbek, J. C., LaPointe, L. L., & Wertz, R. T. (1989). Aphasia: A clinical approach. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Helm Elicited Program for Syntax Stimulation. An aphasia treatment program designed to increase the production of syntactically correct utterances in agrammatic clients with moderate to well-preserved auditory comprehension and some speech production; developed by N. Helm-Estabrooks; uses pictures and a story completion method to evoke the following 11 sentence types at two levels (Level A and Level B): 1. Imperative Intransitive (‘‘Lie down.’’) 2. Imperative Transitive (‘‘Wash the dishes.’’) 3. Wh-interrogative (‘‘What are you doing?’’) 4. Declarative Transitive (‘‘She cleans teeth.’’) 5. Declarative Intransitive (‘‘She skates.’’) 6. Comparative (‘‘They’re funnier.’’) 7. Passive (‘‘The suitcases were lost.’’) 8. Yes/No Questions (‘‘Did you buy the paper?’’) 9. Direct and Indirect Object (‘‘They give Pat a cake.’’) 10. Embedded Sentences (‘‘She wanted him to be healthy.’’) 11. Future (‘‘He will hike.’’) 33

Aphasia: Specific Programs A Background and Preparation ● Obtain the entire treatment program or prepare your own questions, stories, and pictures ● Baserate the responses Level A ● Select sentence type 1. ● Read a story containing a target sentence; ask the client to produce the target sentence: Clinician (CN): ‘‘My friend feels dizzy, so I tell him, ‘lie down.’ What do I tell him?’’ Client (CT): ‘‘Lie down.’’ ● Upon reaching a 90% accuracy criterion, move to

Level B. Level B ● Read a short story again, but without the target sentence; ask the client to produce the target sentence: CN: ‘‘My friend feels dizzy, so I tell him what?’’ CT: ‘‘Lie down.’’ ● Upon reaching 90% accuracy criterion for sentence type 1 at Level B, select sentence type 2 for training; use the same procedure as for sentence type 1. ● Complete training on all 11 sentence types Helm-Estabrooks, N. (1981). Helm elicited program for syntax stimulation. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Helm-Estabrooks, N., & Albert, M. L. (1991). Manual of aphasia therapy. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT). An aphasia treatment program for clients with severe nonfluent aphasia with good auditory comprehension; developed by M. Albert, R. Sparks, and N. Helm; uses musical intonation, continuous voicing, and rhythmic tapping to teach verbal expression; hierarchically structured; contraindicated for clients with Wernicke’s, transcortical motor or sensory, and global aphasia; has three levels.

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Aphasia: Specific Programs A General Procedures ● Select high probability words, phrases, and sentences ● Use pictures or environmental cues for each target utterance ● Intone each word, phrase, or sentence slowly and with constant voicing ● Maintain pitch and stress variations of normal speech ● Tap the client’s left hand once for each intoned syllable ● Signal with your left hand when to listen and when to intone ● Generally, move to the earlier step when the client fails at a step Level I ● Humming: Show a picture, hum the target item, and tap; no response required ● Unison singing: Intone in unison with the client and tap ● Unison with fading: Intone, tap, and fade halfway through the phrase ● Immediate repetition: Ask the client to listen to you as you intone the phrase and tap; let the client imitate ● Response to a probe question: Following a correct imitation, intone a probe question (e.g., ‘‘What did you say?’’) Level II ● Introduction of item: Intone the phrase twice and tap; no response required ● Unison with fading: Intone, tap, and fade halfway through the phrase ● Delayed repetition: Intone and tap, and after 6 seconds of delay, let the client tap with assistance; ask the client to intone without help

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Aphasia: Specific Programs A ● Response to a probe question: Six seconds following

the client’s response, intone the probe question; do not hand tap; let the client intone the phrase Level III ● Delayed repetition: Tap and intone and let the client intone the phrase after 6 seconds and give tapping assistance ● Introducing sprechgesang (speech song): Present the target phrase twice slowly, without singing, but with exaggerated rhythm and stress; no tapping and no response required ● Delayed spoken repetition: Present the phrase in normal prosody, without hand tapping and let the client imitate after 6 seconds in normal prosody ● Response to a probe question: Ask a probe question with normal prosody after a 6-second delay; let the client respond with normal prosody Albert, M., Sparks, R., & Helm, N. (1973). Melodic intonation therapy for aphasia. Archives of Neurology, 29, 130–131. Helm-Estabrooks, N., Nicholas, M., & Morgan, A. (1989). Melodic intonation therapy program. San Antonio, TX: Special Press. See this source for a complete description of steps, scoring procedure, and stimulus materials.

Program of Changing Criteria. An aphasia treatment program described by J. Rosenbek, L. LaPointe, and R. Wertz to increase the length and quality of language; uses systematic shaping and progressively higher response criteria requiring longer utterances; uses differential reinforcement and extensive practice. ● Select realistic human action pictures to evoke responses ● Write about 10 questions, some of which you will use with each picture (e.g., ‘‘How many people do you see?’’ ‘‘What are they doing?’’ ‘‘What is the person wearing?’’) 36

Aphasia: Specific Programs A ● Begin at Criterion I. Require a one- or two-word

response • give directions, present a picture, and ask a question • if no or incorrect response, use the Cloze Procedure • if the client fails, model the response • if the client fails, use any other procedure to evoke the response • if the client fails, use another program • reinforce and give repeated practice on correct responses ● Move to Criterion II. Require a three- to five-word response • give cloze-like cues when the response is incorrect • if the client fails, model the correct response • if no imitation, use any other method to evoke the response • if still no success, return to Criterion I or shift to another program • reinforce and give repeated practice on correct responses ● Move to Criterion III. Require six- to eight-word responses; use the same procedures as under Criterion II. ● Move to Criterion IV. Require spontaneous description of pictures with sentences containing nine or more words; but be flexible about this to promote natural productions. Rosenbek, J. C., LaPointe, L. L., & Wertz, R. T. (1989). Aphasia: A clinical approach. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Promoting Aphasics’ Communicative Effectiveness (PACE). An aphasia treatment program designed to promote face-to-face conversation; developed by G. A. Davis and J. Wilcox; emphasis on exchange of new information, functional communication (as against linguistic precision) with turn taking, free choice for the 37

Aphasia: Specific Programs A client to communicate in any modality; and natural feedback. ● Use a large number of stimulus cards that contain pictured objects, actions, and stories; stack the cards face down on the table ● Take turns drawing cards from the stack; communicate information about the stimulus ● Encourage any mode of expression (words, gestures, drawings, writing, pointing, or a combination of these) ● Add new stimulus cards to promote the exchange of new information ● Provide natural consequences (e.g., ‘‘What did you say?’’ ‘‘Do you mean ?’’ ‘‘I am not sure . . .’’) ● Acknowledge the client’s message while suggesting the correct word or words (e.g., ‘‘I understand. You mean book, right?’’) ● Make variations and adaptations ● Exchange the roles of speaker and listener with the client Davis, G. A. (1993). A survey of adult aphasia (2nd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Davis, G. A. (2000). Aphasiology. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Response Elaboration Training. A treatment approach that uses a loose training format; designed to expand utterances of aphasic clients; emphasis is on shaping and chaining client- rather than clinician-initiated utterances; allows a wide variety of responses as against a predetermined correct response; developed and researched by K. Kearns and his associates. ● Select line drawings to stimulate speech ● Show a stimulus card and evoke an initial response, any response (e.g., the client may say ‘‘Man . . . sweeping’’ to a line drawing of a person with a broom) ● Reinforce the client; also, shape and model the client’s response (e.g., say, ‘‘Great. The man is sweeping.’’) 38

Aphasia: Specific Programs A ● Ask a wh-question to evoke an elaboration of the

initial utterance (e.g., ask ‘‘Why is he sweeping?’’)

● Reinforce the client’s elaboration and shape and

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model the initial response combined with the subsequent elaboration (e.g., the client may answer by saying ‘‘wife . . . mad’’ and you say, ‘‘Way to go! The man is sweeping the floor because his wife is mad.’’) Model the longer response a second time and ask the client to ‘‘Try and say the whole thing after me. Say. . . .’’ Ask the client to imitate after a delay if the client is successful at the previous step Continue until the client fails to elaborate any more Introduce another picture for a similar sequence or initiate a different initial response for the same picture

Kearns, K. P., & Scher, G. P. (1989). The generalization of response elaboration training effects. In T. E. Prescott (Ed.), Clinical aphasiology (Vol. 18, pp. 223–245). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Schuell’s Auditory Stimulation Approach for Aphasia. The method concentrates on intensive auditory stimulation or auditory bombardment; developed by H. Schuell; the method needs more clinical efficacy data. ● Find varied and abundant stimulus materials ● Design a sequence of auditory stimulation ● Work systematically and intensively ● Begin with easy and familiar tasks and increase their complexity; ask the client to: • point to objects named, described, spelled, and so forth • follow directions (simpler to more complex) • answer yes/no questions • respond to alternate items (switch responses) (e.g., ‘‘Show me the horse/Tell me your name.’’) 39

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Duffy, J. R. (1994). Schuell’s stimulation approach to rehabilitation. In R. Chapey (Ed.), Language intervention strategies in adult aphasia (3rd ed., pp. 146–174). Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins.

Treatment for Wernicke’s Aphasia (TWA). A method of aphasia treatment developed by N. Helm-Estabrooks and P. Fitzpatrick to treat auditory comprehension problems; appropriate for clients with severe Wernicke’s aphasia who can read and understand single picturable words: ● Select a corpus of words printed in lowercase that the client can read aloud and point to pictured stimuli ● Provide a printed word that the client can read, but cannot point to when named ● Ask the client to match the printed word to the picture depicting the word

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Aphasia: Specific Programs A ● Ask the client to read the word aloud ● Ask the client to repeat the word ‘‘chair’’ as you say

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fifth session, reevaluate the procedure; select another procedure ● Chart correct and incorrect responses on a recording sheet Helm-Estabrooks, N., & Albert, M. L. (1991). A manual of aphasia therapy. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Visual Action Therapy (VAT). A nonvocal, visual/ gestural communication approach to the rehabilitation of globally aphasic clients; developed by N. HelmEstabrooks and her associates; neither the clinician nor the client talk during treatment; a client who cannot match an object with the tracing of that object is not a good candidate for VAT; more treatment efficacy data are needed. ● Select seven real objects, shaded line drawings of the objects, and seven action pictures involving the objects ● Select some contextual props (e.g., a screw in a block of wood to use a screwdriver) Level I 1. Matching pictures and objects ● Placing objects on pictures. Place all 7 line drawings of the objects on the table; give each object to the client and gesture to place it on the correct drawing ● Placing pictures on objects. Arrange objects on table, and ask the client to place the picture on the object

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show a picture one at a time, and gesture the client to point to the object the picture represents ● Pointing to the pictures. Rearrange pictures, show one object at a time, and gesture the client to point to the correct picture Object use training ● Pick up each object separately ● Use props; demonstrate its use ● Place it back on the table ● Ask the client to pick it up and demonstrate its use Action picture demonstration ● Place an object and its corresponding action picture in front of the client ● Point to the picture ● Pick up the object and demonstrates its use Following action picture commands ● Place all objects and props on the table ● Hold up an action picture ● Gesture the client to manipulate the corresponding object Pantomimed gesture demonstration ● Place each object on the table ● Demonstrate a gesture that represents the object; do not use props from this step on Pantomimed gesture recognition ● Produce a pantomimed gesture to represent one of the objects on the table ● Gesture the client to point to the corresponding object Pantomimed gesture production ● Show one object at a time ● Gesture the client to produce a gesture that suggests the object

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Aphonia A 8. Representation of hidden objects demonstration ● Demonstrate a gesture each for two objects ● Hide the objects in a box ● Take one object out and gesture the hidden object. 9. Production of gestures for hidden objects ● Have the client gesture for two objects ● Hide them ● Take one object out and suggest that the client gesture for the hidden object. Level II ● Do not use objects; replace objects with action pictures beginning with Step 5 of Level I Level III ● Use only the drawings; begin with Step 5. Helm-Estabrooks, N., & Albert, M. L. (1991). A manual of aphasia therapy. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Aphonia. Loss of voice; a voice disorder. Apraxia. Disordered volitional movement in the absence of muscle weakness, paralysis, or fatigue; disorder of movement needed to execute learned actions; involuntarily, the same movements may be executed normally; often due to damage to the premotor cortex.

Apraxia of Speech (AOS) in Adults. A neurogenic speech disorder with documented neuropathology in the left cerebral hemisphere including such areas as Broca’s and supplementary motor; also known as verbal apraxia; primarily an articulatory (phonologic) disorder characterized by sensorimotor problems in positioning and sequentially moving muscles for the volitional production of speech; associated with prosodic problems; not caused by muscle weakness or neuromuscular slowness; presumed to be a disorder of motor programming for speech; rare as an isolated disorder; typically associated with Broca’s aphasia.

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AOS: General Guidelines A Treatment of Apraxia of Speech: General Guidelines ● Make a thorough assessment of apraxia of speech; see

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AOS: General Procedures A ● Carefully sequence the speech tasks; train:

• automatic speech before spontaneous speech • frequently occurring sounds before less frequently occurring sounds • stimulable sounds before nonstimulable sounds • sounds in word-initial positions before those in other positions • visible before nonvisible sounds • oral-nasal distinctions before voicing distinctions • voicing distinctions before manner distinctions • manner distinctions before place distinctions • bilabial and lingua-alveolar sounds before others • singletons before clusters • high-frequency words before low-frequency words • meaningful words • single-syllable words before multisyllable words • single words before phrases or sentences ● Teach the client self-monitoring skills

Treatment of Apraxia of Speech: General Procedures ● Provide counseling and support for the client and family ● Use consistent and variable practice ● Model sound productions frequently for the patient to

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and stabilizes Use shaping to promote natural prosody Use phonetic placement and Phonetic Derivation Use a variety of sounds and sound combinations Practice sound productions with meaningful material Provide instruction on and demonstration of speech production ● Provide immediate, specific feedback ● ● ● ● ●

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appropriate Focus treatment activities on speech tasks Use contrastive stress tasks Use the Key Word technique Use cueing techniques Use phonetic contrasts Use automatic speech tasks initially to evoke speech Use carrier phrases Use singing Push on abdomen to achieve vocal fold closure and phonation for the speechless client Employ an artificial larynx for the speechless patient Emphasize total communication (combined use of verbal expressions, gestures, writing, augmentative devices) Teach Self-Control (Self-Monitoring) skills Use techniques of treating Articulation and Phonological Disorders

Brookshire, R. H. (1997). An introduction to neurogenic communication disorders (5th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Mosby Year Book. Duffy, J. R. (1995). Motor speech disorders: Substrates, differential diagnosis, and management. St. Louis, MO: C. V. Mosby. Freed, D. (2000). Motor speech disorders: Diagnosis and treatment. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Halpern, H. (2000). Language and motor speech disorders in adults (2nd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Johns, D. F. (Ed.), Clinical management of neurogenic communicative disorders (2nd ed.). Boston: Little, Brown Wertz, R. T., LaPointe, L. L., & Rosenbek, J. C. (1991). Apraxia of speech. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.

Treatment of Mild Apraxia of Speech ● Note that persons with mild AOS are:

• good candidates for massed-trial treatment of articulatory accuracy • likely to learn to communicate well in social and occupational situations

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Brookshire, R. H. (1997). An introduction to neurogenic communication disorders (5th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Mosby Year Book. Freed, D. (2000). Motor speech disorders: Diagnosis and treatment. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Halpern, H. (2000). Language and motor speech disorders in adults (2nd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Wertz, R. T., LaPointe, L. L., & Rosenbek, J. C. (1991). Apraxia of speech in adults: The disorder and its management. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.

Treatment of Moderate Apraxia of Speech

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Use Reading in Treatment

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AOS: Treatment of Moderate Forms A Use Gestural Reorganization to Improve Communication ● Explain the need and usefulness of Gestural Reorganization (described under Aphasia; Treatment of Aphasia: Special Techniques or Programs to the client ● Begin with frequently used and simpler gestures (tapping with a finger, drumming with one or more fingers, squeezing the thumb and the index finger, tapping with the foot) ● Model the gesture that works for the client and ask the client to imitate ● Give Manual Guidance (e.g., physical assistance in tapping) if the client needs it ● Tap on the client’s hand if this helps ● Give verbal modeling and other cues as well ● Stabilize the gesture ● Model gestures with speech and ask the patient to imitate both ● Pair gestures with words or phrases initially and pair longer utterances subsequently ● Fade your tapping first ● Fade your verbal modeling ● Use gestures with Contrastive Stress Drills ● Move on to more spontaneous conversational speech ● Fade the client’s gestures if they persist as the client becomes verbally more proficient ● Use a Pacing Board Brookshire, R. H. (1997). An introduction to neurogenic communication disorders (5th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Mosby Year Book. Freed, D. (2000). Motor speech disorders: Diagnosis and treatment. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Halpern, H. (2000). Language and motor speech disorders in adults (2nd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Wertz, R. T., LaPointe, L. L., & Rosenbek, J. C. (1991). Apraxia of speech in adults: The disorder and its management. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.

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AOS: Treatment of Severe Forms A Treatment of Severe Apraxia of Speech ● Note that persons with severe AOS:

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Treatment of Apraxia of Speech: Specific Techniques or Programs Darley, Aronson, and Brown’s Procedure for AOS. A procedure for treating AOS by systematic shaping of articulatory productions and capitalizing on automatic productions. It includes intensive trails for phoneme productions (phonemic drills). ● Shape vowels, consonants, and consonant-vowel (CV) syllables: • identify a vocal response the client can make (perhaps an ‘‘ah’’; if not, a voluntary cough or a hum that can be shaped into a vocal response)

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Darley, F. L., Aronson, A. E., & Brown, J. R. (1975). Motor speech disorders. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders.

Eight-Step Continuum Treatment for AOS. A procedure for treating AOS developed by J. C. Rosenbek and associates. The main feature of this technique is the systematic shaping of words with the use of cues that are faded out. ● Select the sounds and words for training • select words for initial training that contain easier sounds in them (vowels, nasals, and stops as against fricatives and affricates) • select words that contain sounds produced with closer articulatory contacts for initial training (e.g., words with only bilabial sounds) and increase the distance between the articulatory contact gradually (e.g., words with bilabial and lingua-alveolars moving on to velar sounds)

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AOS: Specific Programs A • select short, simple, and frequently used words for initial training and increase the length of words gradually ● Apply a sequenced treatment • say ‘‘Watch me’’ and ‘‘Listen to me’’ and then model a target word • ask the client to say the word along with you; this is unison production • say ‘‘Watch me’’ and ‘‘Listen to me’’ and then say the word; ask the client to produce the word aloud as you silently mouth the word • say ‘‘Watch me’’ and ‘‘Listen to me’’ and then say the word; ask the client to produce the word without any cues • say ‘‘Watch me’’ and ‘‘Listen to me’’ and then say the word; ask the client to produce the word several times without any cues • present the target word printed on a card and ask the client to produce it • show the printed target word briefly, remove it, and then ask the client to produce it • ask a question to evoke the target word and let the client respond with it • arrange role-playing conversational situations in which the client has opportunities to produce target words; get family members and others involved in this role-playing Rosenbek, J. C., and associates (1973). A treatment for apraxia of speech in adults. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 38, 462–472.

Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Targets (PROMPTS). A procedure for treating AOS in children and adults that emphasizes the use of tactilekinesthetic cues in teaching correct production of phonemes; uses manual guidance to position articulators

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AOS: Specific Programs A or suggest their appropriate movement; developed by P. Square-Store and D. Hayden. ● Note that kinesthetic and tactile cues may be effective only in the context of speech production; by themselves, such cues may be ineffective ● Learn the cues that are described in the cited source; note that cues are given for articulatory positions, voicing, extent of jaw opening, syllable timing, manner of articulation, coarticulation, and so forth ● Learn the many contact positions on the face, neck, jaw, and so forth ● Provide cues by touching the client’s face, neck, jaw, and other structures ● Manually guide the articulators to correct positions ● Model target words for the client to imitate ● Give cues if the imitative production was incorrect ● Manually guide the articulators to correct positions ● Ask the client to produce the sound as the articulators are being moved to correct positions ● Give other cues to suggest articulatory movements that cannot be manually guided Square-Store, P., & Hayden, D. (1989). PROMPT treatment. In P. Square-Store (Ed.), Acquired apraxia of speech in aphasic adults (pp. 165–189). London: Taylor and Francis.

Voluntary Control of Involuntary Utterances. A procedure for treating AOS, although it was originally developed for clients with severe aphasia with little voluntary speech; based on the assumption that most severely aphasic and apraxic individuals can produce a few words involuntarily and that from such involuntary productions, it is possible to shape voluntary productions; developed by N. Helm and B. Baresi. ● Write down all utterances the client produces during the initial interview and testing situations ● Select words from the client’s involuntary or spontaneous productions 56

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Articulation Disorders A words that were involuntarily or spontaneously produced initially begin to be used in conversational speech or oral reading Helm, N., & Baresi, B. (1980). Voluntary control of involuntary utterances: A treatment approach for severe aphasia. In R. Brookshire (Ed.), Clinical aphasiology conference proceedings (pp. 308–315). Minneapolis, MN: BRK Publishers.

Articulation and Phonological Disorders. Disorders of speech characterized by difficulty in producing speech sounds correctly; sounds may be omitted, distorted, or substituted; difficulty in producing a few sounds with no pattern or derivable rule is often described as an articulation disorder; multiple errors that can be grouped on some principle or characteristics and thus form patterns are typically described as Phonological Disorders. ● Make a thorough assessment of articulation and phonological disorders; consult the sources cited and the PGASLP

Treatment of Articulation and Phonological Disorders: General Guidelines Consider the issues and approaches in treating articulation and phonological disorders: ● Phonetic or phonemic approach? Note that some experts recommend that the clinician decide whether the child needs a motor (phonetic) approach in which single sounds are trained at different levels or a phonemic approach in which errors are grouped and a phonological process (linguistic) approach is used; note also that even in the phonemic approaches, single phonemes must be trained. ● What are the treatment targets? Note that treatment targets may be defined either as the correct production of phonemes in error or the remediation or elimination of phonological process; note also, that either way, individual sounds need to be taught; correct production 58

Articulation: General Guidelines A of all phonemes in conversational speech produced in natural settings is the final treatment target ● How are the targets sounds sequenced? Although all sounds need to be taught, multiple sounds misarticulated cannot be taught all at once; consider selecting certain sounds for initial training, certain others for subsequent training, and the remaining sounds for training during the final stages of therapy: • select sounds that are functional for the child for immediate training; sounds that are important from the standpoint of social and academic performance (e.g., even though /r/ may not be an initial target for all 4year-old children who misarticulate that sound, it may be for a child named Robert Roberson who refers to himself as ‘‘Wobert Woberson’’; in this case, /r/ is functional for the child) • select for immediate training sounds that are stimulable; sounds the child misarticulates in spontaneous speech but imitates correctly when modeled may be more easily taught; hence, select sounds that are imitated correctly for initial training; select sounds not imitated correctly for training in later stages; note that some children may learn equally fast the sounds that are not easily imitated, but shaped in therapy • select for immediate training sounds that are typically misarticulated but correctly produced in some words; use these words as key words to teach correct production of the sounds in other words by using the PairedStimuli Approach described later in this section • select for immediate training sounds that are more visible; visible sounds provide visual feedback when the clinician models them and this might facilitate initial success; select nonvisible sounds for later training • select high frequency sounds for immediate training; teaching correct production of sounds that are more frequently used in speech will improve intelligibility 59

Articulation: General Guidelines A faster and more noticeably than correcting sounds that occur less frequently; see Frequency of Occurrence of English Consonants • select sounds that are normally acquired earlier before selecting those that are acquired later; this recommendation is based on the normative logic that behaviors acquired earlier are easier to teach than those that are acquired later; may not hold true for all sounds that need to be taught • select sounds that the child does not produced at all for immediate training; this recommendation is contrary to the one that suggests inconsistently produced sounds for immediate training; this is based on the assumption that sounds that are totally missing contribute the most to unintelligibility of speech and that teaching them will improve intelligibility the most • select for immediate training sounds whose training may results in generalized production of some untrained sounds; this means that training time and effort can be saved for some sounds; for instance, consider training voiced sounds when voiced and voiceless cognates are both misarticulated to see if unvoiced, untrained sounds will begin to be produced because of generalization; always probe untrained sounds to confirm generalized productions; note that all phonological process approaches assume that some sounds trained within a process is sufficient to have other sounds within it produced without training; note that this may or may not happen ● How is the Response Topography Sequenced? Use the following guidelines in sequencing response topography (levels of response complexity at which the sounds are trained); consider Specific Techniques or Programs described in a later section for somewhat varied recommendations:

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Ethnocultural Considerations in Treating Articulation and Phonological Disorders ● Note that variables related to ethnic, cultural, and lin-

guistic background of clients significantly affect the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of articulation disorders; see PGASLP for assessment guidelines of clients with varied ethnocultural background ● Do not recommend treatment for a client who speaks a different dialect of English as all dialects of a language

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A Comprehensive Treatment Program for Articulation and Phonological Disorders ● Assess the client’s articulation and phonological skills;

determine any patterns that may exist (based on distinctive features or phonological processes); consult the cited sources and PGASLP ● Select the target speech sounds for modification; • use previously described criteria for selecting treatment targets (functional targets, sounds that greatly improve intelligibility, sounds that are acquired earlier, sounds that are produced inconsistently, or, alternatively, sounds that are not produced at all) 62

Articulation: A Comprehensive Program A • sequence the target sounds for training them in the early, middle, and final treatment phases using the previously described guidelines • group the target sounds—especially in the case of multiple misarticulations—according to distinctive features or phonological processes (e.g., establishing voiced/voiceless contrasts or elimination of the final consonant deletion process) ● Write measurable objectives for each target sound; include in each objective statement: • the response to be taught (e.g., ‘‘The production of /s/ . . .’’) • the complexity level at which the response will be taught initially (e.g., ‘‘The production of /s/ in words . . .’’) • the position of the target sound in words (e.g., ‘‘The production of /s/ in word-initial positions . . .’’; and similar statements for other word positions) • the performance criterion to judge success (e.g., ‘‘The production of /s/ in word-initial positions at 90% accuracy in a set of 10 training words . . .’’) • the response setting (e.g., ‘‘The production of /s/ in word-initial positions at 90% accuracy in a set of 10 training words . . .’’); note that for initial training, only one setting—the clinical setting—may be specified and as training advances, new objectives may be written to include additional settings • the number of speech samples or sessions in which the production of sounds is measured (e.g., ‘‘The production of /s/ in word-initial positions at 90% accuracy in a set of 10 training words measured across three consecutive speech samples or treatment sessions.’’) ● Write different measurable target objectives for different levels of response complexity • at the word level (e.g., ‘‘The production of /l/ in wordfinal positions at 90% accuracy in a set of 10 training 63

Articulation: A Comprehensive Program A words measured across three consecutive speech samples recorded in the clinic.’’) • at the phrase level (e.g., ‘‘The production of /t/ in word-medial positions at 90% accuracy in a set of 10 two-word training phrases measured across three consecutive speech samples recorded in the clinic.’’) • at the sentence level (e.g., ‘‘The production of /d/ in word-initial positions at 90% accuracy in a set of 10 training sentences measured across three consecutive speech samples recorded in the clinic.’’) • at the conversational speech level (e.g., ‘‘The production of /k/ in word-medial positions at 90% accuracy in three consecutive, spontaneous conversational speech samples recorded in the clinic.’’) ● Write different measurable target objectives for different settings • for the clinical setting (e.g., ‘‘The production of /k/ in word-medial positions at 90% accuracy in three consecutive, spontaneous conversational speech samples produced in the clinic.’’); write similar objectives for other word positions and for phrases and words • for the setting just outside the clinic, but within the clinic premises (e.g., ‘‘The production of /z/ in 10 training phrases at 90% accuracy produced outside the clinic but within the general clinical setting.’’); write similar objectives for other word positions and for words and sentences • for the client’s home setting (e.g., ‘‘The production of /k/ in conversational speech at 90% accuracy in three consecutive samples evoked by parents in their home setting.’’); write similar objectives for other sound targets; note that when the parents do the home training and measurement, the response mode is typically conversational speech; parents are rarely asked to pay attention to position of sounds in words although they can monitor sound productions in words 64

Articulation: A Comprehensive Program A • for the client’s classroom (e.g., ‘‘The production of /t/ in conversational speech at 90% accuracy in three consecutive samples evoked by the teacher in the child’s classroom setting.’’); write similar objectives for other sound targets; note that when the teachers monitor production of target speech sounds, the response mode is typically conversational speech; teachers are rarely asked to pay attention to position of sounds in words although they can monitor sound production in words • for the client’s school setting other than the classroom (e.g., ‘‘The production of /t/ in conversational speech at 90% accuracy in three consecutive samples evoked by the teacher in the school’s dining hall.’’); write similar objectives for all target phonemes to be monitored in all academic settings (e.g., library, playground) • for the client’s varied settings (e.g., ‘‘The production of /b/ in conversational speech at 90% accuracy in three consecutive samples evoked by family members or others in such natural settings as restaurants and shopping centers.’’); write similar objectives for all target sounds; note that when the production of a target sound is monitored in natural contexts and settings, the response mode is usually conversational speech ● Prepare stimulus materials to be used in therapy sessions • prepare 20 words, phrases, and sentences for each target sound in each word position (i.e., 20 words each for initial, medial, and final word positions; 60 target words for each sound to be trained); select picturable words to the extent possible • select pictures, drawings, objects, or a combination of these to evoke each target word, phrase, or sentence; preferably, select colorful and realistic pictures from popular magazines 65

Articulation: A Comprehensive Program A • test the stimulus materials with the child to make sure that the child is familiar with them; show the materials to parents to get their feedback; replace any ethnoculturally inappropriate stimulus material (including picture, objects, words, and phrases) with those that are appropriate, familiar to the child, and approved by the parents ● Design a treatment response recording sheet of the following kind; modify as necessary with the required features of space available to list the target behaviors and score the child’s responses as correct, incorrect, or absent (no response): Name:

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Articulation: A Comprehensive Program A again; training and probes will be alternated until the probe criterion of 90% accuracy in untrained words is achieved ● Establish Baselines of target sounds in words, phrases, sentences, and conversational speech • measure the correct production of target sounds in conversational speech; use the initial sample recorded during assessment; repeat the procedure to obtain another sample in the first intervention session; if the initial assessment sample and the first interventionsession sample show different percentage of errors for the same sound, repeat the sample • measure the production of target sounds in words with the discrete trial procedure; administer one set of trials with modeling and one without: 1. place a picture or an object in front of the child 2. ask a relevant question (e.g., ‘‘What is this?’’) 3. model the correct response (e.g., ‘‘Say soup.’’); emphasize the target sound 4. wait a few seconds for the child to imitate 5. move the picture toward you and record the sound production as correct, incorrect, or no response 6. present the same picture; ask the same question; but do not model the response; record the response as before 7. administer all target words once with modeling (modeled trial) and once without (evoked trial) 8. calculate percent correct imitated and evoked response rate for each sound and each wordposition ● Teach sound production in words, phrases, and sentences using the discrete trial procedure; initially, train the target sound at the word (or syllable) level with Modeling: 1. describe the target sound and how it is produced; demonstrate its production; and point out its Pho68

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netic Placement; if necessary, use Manual Guidance to move articulators to their correct production; see Sound-Evoking Techniques for English Consonants that describe specific instructions and manipulations that facilitate the production of specific sounds place a picture or an object in front of the child ask a relevant question (e.g., ‘‘What is this?’’) model the correct response (e.g., ‘‘Say sun.’’); emphasize the target sound wait a few seconds for the child to imitate positively reinforce the child by verbal praise, a token, or a primary reinforcer as soon as he or she correctly imitates the sound give corrective feedback if the child does not imitate correctly (say ‘‘That is not correct; you said ; I want you to say .’’); use Time-out or Response Cost to control incorrect sound productions and uncooperative or interfering behaviors move the picture toward you and record the sound production as correct, incorrect, or no response represent the same picture; repeat the instructions on correct production; show the phonetic placement for its production; ask the same question; model the response; record the response as before continue this training with modeling until the child gives five consecutively correct imitated responses; discontinue modeling if the child fails to imitate the sound in a word in 10 trials, use Shaping by dropping to the syllable or isolated phoneme production level; when the child correctly imitates the phoneme on 5 trials, move up to the syllable level; with 5 correct imitative responses at the syllable level, move up to the word level; with 5 correct imitations at the word level, discontinue modeling 69

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1. present the same picture, ask the same question, but do not model 2. reinforce the correct responses or give corrective feedback for incorrect responses; repeat instructions, demonstrations of phonetic placement if necessary 3. continue this training without modeling until the child gives 9 correct responses in a block of 10 trials; when this happens, consider the particular word tentatively trained 4. select another word with the same target sound and begin training with modeling; discontinue and reinstate modeling as before; drop to phoneme or syllable level if necessary; move up to the word level; when the child gives 9 correct evoked responses in a word in a block of 10 trials, consider this word tentatively trained; follow this procedure until the child is trained on at least 4 words, perhaps up to 6 words ● Probe for generalized production of the trained sound • note that a probe is done to assess generalized production of trained sounds in untrained contexts • initially, conduct an Intermixed Probe with at least 10 untrained words intermixed with trained words; alternate trained and untrained words; reuse trained words; note that untrained words are also called the probe words; correct production of the sound in probe words indicates that the child will produce the sound in new and untrained words • prepare an Intermixed Probe Recording Sheet as shown here and record the probe responses • note that all probe trials are evoked only; do not model correct productions • reinforce or provide corrective feedback for sound productions only in already trained words; do not reinforce or provide corrective feedback for correct or 70

Articulation: A Comprehensive Program A incorrect productions in untrained (probe) words; see also Probe Procedure Intermixed Probe Response Recording Sheet Name:

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5. calculate the percent correct probe response rate based only on the number of probe words, ignoring the trained words in this calculation (e.g., If the child’s production of the target sound was correct in 5 of the 10 probe words, the correct probe response rate is 50%.) ● Alternate between probe and training • if the child’s probe response rate is below 90%, provide additional training with new training words; after training four or six more words, administer another intermixed probe; if the probe criterion is not met, train more words and probe again until the child meets the probe criterion 71

Articulation: A Comprehensive Program A • when the intermixed probe criterion is met, administer a Pure Probe in which only untrained words are presented; calculate the percent correct pure probe response rate; if it is below 90% correct, provide a few additional training trials on all the trained words until the pure probe criterion is met • switch training to another target sound or the same sound in a different word position; follow the same procedure as outlined to complete training the sound at the word initial, medial, and final positions; train other sounds at the word level with the same procedure ● Shift training to higher levels of response complexity • when a sound meets either the intermixed or pure probe criterion for a given word-position (e.g., the initial position), construct two- or three-word phrases that contain a word in which the sound is produced correctly • administer the phrases the same way as the words; model initially; withdraw modeling when at least five correct imitations are produced; reinstate modeling if incorrect responses return; withdraw modeling again • after training four to six phrases to the same training criterion as 90% correct on a block of 10 trials, administer an intermixed probe; provide additional training on new phrases if the intermixed probe criterion is not met; when the intermixed probe criterion is met, administer a probe; when the pure probe criterion is met, shift training to sentence levels in which the word with correct production of the target sound is included • train sentences in the same manner as words and phrases; after presenting the stimulus item, ask a question that would evoke a sentence (e.g., ask ‘‘What is the boy doing?’’ to evoke ‘‘He is having some soup.’’); initially, model the sentences and withdraw 72

Articulation: A Comprehensive Program A modeling: probe generalized production of sounds in conversation in the same way as described for words and phrases • when the pure probe criterion is met for sentences, shift training to conversational speech level; with the help of pictures and other stimulus materials, engage the child in conversational speech and positively reinforce correct productions on an Intermittent Reinforcement Schedule; prompt the correct productions; give corrective feedback • periodically, conduct pure conversational probes in which you engage the child in conversation without reinforcement or corrective feedback; continue training until the child meets the 90% correct production of all target sounds in conversational speech with little or no prompting and reinforcement ● Note that within the framework of this comprehensive treatment program, you can use components of various programs of articulation treatment described under Treatment of Articulation and Phonological Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs; for instance: • use aspects of the Contrast Approach; in using the Minimal Pair Contrast Method, write minimal pair contrast words for training each sound; for instance, in teaching a child to produce final consonants (elimination of final consonantal deletion), write such word pairs as bow-boat, bee-beet, toe-toad, pie-pine; to teach the correct production of a single phoneme such as /b/ for which the child substitutes /p/, write such pairs as bye-pie, bat-pat, beat-peat, bike-pike; instead of placing a single stimulus item as previously described, place a pair of stimulus items in front of the child; model both the words and ask the child to imitate; withdraw modeling and prove evoked trials; move through response complexity levels as described earlier 73

Articulation: A Comprehensive Program A • use aspects of the Paired-Stimuli Approach; instead of presenting only the target word in which the child misarticulates the sound (as described earlier), present both the target word and a Key Word in which the sound is correctly produced; ask the child to produce the key word first and then the target word; see Paired-Stimuli Approach for details; when the client meets the training criterion for words, move on to probes and then to training the words in sentences • use aspects of the Multiple Phoneme Approach if the child exhibits multiple errors; instead of training one sound at a time as described, train multiple phonemes; see the description of the procedure for details • use aspects of the Phonological Process Approach if the client exhibits multiple misarticulations with identified patterns; note that the phonological process approach does not have a unique treatment procedure; to eliminate a process, individual phonemes still need to be taught; this teaching involves instructions, modeling, phonetic placement, manual guidance, positive reinforcement, corrective feedback, and so forth; in using the phonological process approach, identify patterns or processes in misarticulations; select processes for elimination; teach the phonemes as described in the comprehensive program; when you teach a few phonemes within a process, probe the other phonemes within the process to see if they are now produced on the basis of generalization; if they are, move on to the other processes or to higher levels of response complexity; if they are not produced, train additional sounds within the process ● Implement a maintenance program • Always train the correct production of sounds in sentences and in naturalistic conversational speech during the final stages of treatment 74

Articulation: A Comprehensive Program A • Conduct informal training sessions in Extraclinical Settings; monitor the child’s correct speech sound production outside the therapy room but within the clinic, outside the clinic but in the surround areas, and in such natural settings as the classroom, the shool dining hall, and the library • Train family members, teachers, and peers in reinforcing the correct production of sounds in Natural Settings; ask the parents or other caregivers to observe your treatment session; educate them about the correct production of target sounds; ask them to pay attention to the correct method of providing positive reinforcement and corrective feedback; train them to prompt and promptly reinforce the correct productions at home; train them to hold brief training sessions at home; ask parents to tape-record the session and review the tape to give them feedback • Teach the client Self-Control (Self-Monitoring) techniques to self-manage the correct and incorrect productions; in the treatment sessions, ask the child to judge the accuracy of his or her productions; give feedback on this judgment; ask the child to mark on a sheet his or her own responses as either correct or incorrect; teach the child to pause briefly as soon as an error is produced and then try to produce it correctly • Follow up the child periodically and assess the correct production of phonemes in conversational speech; provide booster treatment when the correct production in conversational speech falls below 90% accuracy Pen˜a-Brooks, A., & Hegde, M. N. (2000). Assessment and treatment of articulation and phonological disorders in children. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Hegde, M. N. (1998a). Treatment procedures in communicative disorders (3rd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

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Articulation: African American Children A Hegde, M. N. (1998b). Treatment protocols in communicative disorders: Targets and strategies. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Treatment of Articulation and Phonological Disorders in African American Children African American English is a product of unique historical and cultural forces; it is a recognized form of English; therefore, note that: ● African American English (AAE) has its own phonologic, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic rules and conventions ● The phoneme inventory of children speaking AAE will consist of the same phonemes as in Standard American English (SAE); only some phonemes will be used differently, substituted for other phonemes, or omitted in certain contexts ● A majority of phonemes are used in the same way in both AAE and SAE ● The clinician needs to know which AAE phonemic usages that differ from those of SAE are indeed characteristics of AAE; the following phonological patterns are accepted in AAE and hence are not to be treated as disorders: • /l/ lessening or omission (e.g., too’ for tool; a’ways for always) • /r/ lessening or omission (e.g., doah for door; mudah for mother) • /θ/ substitution for /f/ in word final or medial positions (e. g., teef for teeth, nofin’ for nothing) • /t/ substitution for /θ/ in word initial positions (e.g., tink for think) • /d/ substitution for /␦/ in word initial and medial positions (e.g., dis for this and broder for brother) • /v/ substitution for /␦/ at word final positions (e.g., smoov for smooth) • omission of consonants in clusters in word initial and final positions (e.g., thow for throw and des’ for desk)

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Pen˜a-Brooks, A., & Hegde, M. N. (2000). Assessment and treatment of articulation and phonological disorders in children. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Roseberry-McKibbin, C. (1995). Multicultural students with special needs. Oceanside, CA: Academic Communication Associates.

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Treatment of Articulation and Phonological Disorders in Bilingual Children Bilingual children are a large and varied group. In the United States, children whose primary language is Spanish constitute a large and growing group. Other groups include children whose primary language is an Asian language or a Native American language. Because of the variety of primary languages that influence the secondary English spoken in the United States, it is not possible to list the characteristics of all the various primary languages that influence American English. Follow the guidelines specified below to develop appropriate articulation and phonological treatment programs for bilingual children: ● Make a thorough assessment of articulation and phonological skills in children who are bilingual; assess in primary language as well as in the secondary Standard American English (SAE); consult the cited sources and the PGASLP ● Analyze errors in the primary language; select these as the treatment targets; note that such treatment requires the working knowledge of the child’s primary language; in the absence of such knowledge, refer the child to a speech-language pathologist (SLP) who has the knowledge ● Analyze errors in SAE that are not due to the influence of the primary language; these errors, too, may be treatment targets; note that a monolingual English-speaking SLP can offer this treatment, assuming that an assessment was made with the help of a bilingual clinician ● Analyze English sound productions that vary from those in SAE but are due to the influence of the child’s 79

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English in treating articulation and phonological disorders in a child whose primary language is Spanish: • Spanish has only 5 vowels (as against 15 in English) • the English consonants /v/, /θ/, /␦/, /z/, and // are not in Spanish; while speaking English, some of these may be produced as allophonic variations of phonemes present in Spanish • some Spanish consonants, though similar to certain consonants in English, may be produced differently • Spanish has only a few consonants in word final positions (only /s/, /n/, /r/, /l/, and /d/) • Spanish consonantal clusters are fewer and simpler; the /s/ cluster, most common in English, does not occur in Spanish; final clusters are rare in Spanish • English /t/, /d/, and /n/ tend to be dentalized • final consonants may be devoiced (e.g, dose for doze) • /b/ may be substituted for /v/ (e.g., bery for very) • weak or deaspirated stops, giving the impression of omission of stop sounds • /tʃ/ may be substituted for /ʃ/ (e.g., Chirley for Shirley) • /d/ or /z/ may be substituted for /␦/, which does not exist in Spanish (e.g., dis for this or zat for that) • schwa may be inserted before word-initial consonant clusters (eskate for skate or espend for spend) • omission of many consonants at word-final positions • /r/ may be trapped (as in the English word butter) or trilled • word-initial /h/ may be silent (e.g., old for hold or it for hit) • /y/ may be substituted for /d/, an absent sound in Spanish (e.g., yulie for Julie) • /s/ may be produced more frontally, giving the impression of a lisp

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other bilingual children (such as those whose primary language is one of many Asian languages): • use the general guidelines already specified for working with bilingual children • note that because of the diversity of Asian languages, a general description of phonological characteristics is neither practical nor meaningful • note that many descriptions in the literature under the heading of Asian children or speakers apply only to the Chinese, not to other Asian languages • note that Asian languages belong to different language families and hence are highly varied in their phonological and other characteristics Kayser, H. (1995). Bilingual speech-language pathology: An Hispanic focus. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Pen˜a-Brooks, A., & Hegde, M. N. (2000). Assessment and treatment of articulation and phonological disorders in children. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Roseberry-McKibbin, C. (1995). Multicultural students with special needs. Oceanside, CA: Academic Communication Associates.

Sound-Evoking Techniques for English Consonants. Several procedures to evoke sounds during treatment are available; no systematic research has evaluated the relative effectiveness of these procedures; these techniques are based on clinical experience of many clinicians; therefore, use them with caution and modify or abandon procedures that do not produce results; generously reinforce any slight improvement in the client’s target sound production or a movement in the right direction: ● Evocation of /p/, a bilabial, voiceless, stop-plosive: • model the sound production several times; draw attention to the lip closure, building up of air pressure in the mouth, and air explosion as the sound is produced 82

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Articulation: Sound-Evoking Techniques A • instruct the child to hum continuously and, while doing this, open the mouth; this might result in ma, from which you can shape /m/ • alternatively, teach the child to breathe in deeply through the nose, close the mouth, and let the air come out of the nose while saying ‘‘Ah’’; this might result in /m/ • shape /m/ out of these manipulations ● Evocation of /n/, a lingua-alveolar, voiced nasal: • model the sound production several times; draw attention to the articulatory positions; emphasize the nasal resonance; let the child feel the nasal vibrations • shape /n/ from /d/; teach the child to let the air out through the nose while producing /d/ • alternatively, ask the child to breathe out through the nose with voice added while keeping the tongue tip positioned for /n/ • shape /n/ with such manipulations ● Evocation of /ŋ/, a lingua-velar, voiced nasal: • model the sound production several times; draw attention to the articulatory positions; emphasize the nasal resonance; let the child feel the nasal vibrations • shape /ŋ/out of /g/ by teaching the child to produce /g/ while keeping the mouth closed to direct the air through the nose • alternatively, ask the child to produce a prolonged [i] and, while doing this, ask the child to raise the back of the tongue to make a firm contact with the roof of the mouth • shape /ŋ/ out of these manipulations ● Evocation of [j], a lingua-palatal voiced glide: • model the sound production several times; draw attention to the articulatory positions • shape [j] with a prolonged [i]; teach the client to prolong the [i] and quickly produce [u], resulting in [iju]; teach the client to shorten or unvoice the [i], resulting in [j] 87

Articulation: Sound-Evoking Techniques A • shape [j] with //; ask the child to produce // in quick succession, resulting in [] • shape [] with these manipulations ● Evocation of [w], a bilabial, voiced glide: • model the sound production several times; draw attention to the articulatory positions • shape [w] with [u]; ask the child to produce a prolonged [u] and then quickly add the schwa, resulting in [uwa]; teach the child to shorten the [u] or turn the voice off on it, resulting in [wa] • alternatively, teach the child to raise the back of the tongue without touching the roof of the mouth, round the lips and bring them closer, and breathe out with voicing • shape [w] with such manipulations ● Evocation of [r], an alveo-palatal voiced glide: • model the sound production several times; draw attention to the articulatory positions • ask the child to place the tongue tip slightly behind the upper front teeth; ask the child then to ‘‘curl the tongue backward’’ without making contact with the roof of the mouth; round the lips slightly, and breathe out with voice on; this should result in [r] • alternatively, shape [r] from [d]; from the [d] position, ask the child to lower the tongue tip; retract the tongue, round the lips slightly, and breathe out with voice on; this should result in [r] • alternatively, ask the child to growl like a tiger and shape [r] from that growl • shape [r] with such manipulations ● Evocation of [l], an alveolar voiced lateral: • model the sound production several times; draw attention to the articulatory positions • with a tongue depressor, lift the tip of the tongue and position it for [l]; ask the child to breathe out and turn on the voice, resulting in [l] 88

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Treatment of Articulation and Phonological Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs Behavioral Approaches. Articulation treatment techniques based on the use of Behavioral Contingencies of stimulus-response-consequence in shaping or teaching sound production in words, sentences, and conversational speech; also may use a programmed learning approach; elements of behavioral approaches are found in almost all programs of articulation and phonological treatment, including those that that are not typically described as behavioral. Programmed Conditioning for Articulation. A behavioral treatment method that uses behavioral principles and programmed learning concepts; developed by R. Baker and B. Ryan. ● Criterion of Performance: Ten correct responses in a row. Establishment Phase: Training Sequence Sound in Isolation ● Sound in isolation with Continuous Reinforcement (crf) Nonsense Syllable Level ● Sound in initial position of nonsense syllables (crf) ● Sound in final position of nonsense syllables (crf) ● Sound in medial position of nonsense syllables (crf) Word Level ● Sound in word-initial position (50% rf) ● Sound in word-final position (50% rf) ● Sound in word-medial position (50% rf) Phrase Level ● Sound in word-initial position produced in two- or three-word phrases (50% rf) 89

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three-word phrases (50% rf) Sentence Level ● Sound in word-initial position produced in four- to six-word sentences (50% rf) ● Sound in word-final position produced in four- or six-word sentences (50% rf) ● Sound in word-medial position produced in four- to six-word sentences (50% rf) Contextual Reading Level (Go to the next level if the client is a nonreader) ● Sound in orally read sentences (crf) Story Narration Level ● Sound in story retelling (after silently reading a story) (crf) Picture Description Level ● Sound in sentences and phrases produced to describe a story (crf) Conversational Speech Level ● Sound in conversational speech (crf) ● Sound in conversational speech (10% rf) Administer the criterion test Move to the Transfer Phase and begin training on new sounds Transfer Phase: Training Sequence Home Training ● Sound in words, repeats the words (crf) ● Sound in phrases, repeats the phrases (crf) ● Sound in sentences, repeats the sentences (crf) ● Sound in oral reading or picture description (crf) ● Sound in conversation (crf) Clinician Training in Different Settings ● Conversation outside the clinic room door (crf) ● Conversation down the hall (crf) 90

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Training in Classroom ● Conversation with clinician in classroom (crf) ● Conversation with clinician and teacher in classroom (crf) ● Conversation in small-group activity (crf) ● Conversation in large-group activity (crf) ● Speech or ‘‘show and tell’’ in front of the class (crf) Administer the transfer criterion test Maintenance Phase: Training Sequence ● Conversation during weekly meetings for the first 4 weeks (crf) ● Conversation during one monthly meeting (crf) ● Dismiss the client Baker, R. D., & Ryan, B. P. (1971). Programmed conditioning for articulation. Monterey, CA: Monterey Learning Systems. Pen˜a-Brooks, A., & Hegde, M. N. (2000). Assessment and treatment of articulation and phonological disorders in children. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Contrast Approach. A cognitive-linguistic approach to treatment of articulation disorders; often used in remediating phonological processes; uses contrasting pairs of words that contain minimal or maximal differences between the target sounds and those contrasted; the actual training of sounds may involve behavioral contingencies; researched by multiple investigators. Minimal Pair Contrast Method. Uses word pairs that have minimal phonemic contrast (e.g., bat-pat). ● Analyze the client’s misarticulations ● Write minimal contrast word pairs; for instance, to remediate deletion of final consonants, write such pairs as boat-bow, bee-bead, and tee-teeth; to remediate 91

Articulation: Specific Programs A fronting, write such pairs as can-tan, key-tea, and gate-date. ● Obtain pictures for words in selected pairs ● Begin treatment by modeling both the target and the contrast words; ask the child to imitate both ● Provide extensive trials on imitative production of the target and contrast words ● Ask the client to spontaneously name the picture pairs ● Ask the client to name the pictures and then sort them into separate piles ● Alternatively, ask the client to say the target word as you pick the correct picture (the client says boat and you pick up the picture of boat; if the client says bow, you pick-up the picture of bow and then correct the client) ● Ask the client to match two pictures by first picking a picture from several displayed and then selecting its minimal pair match Maximal Pair Contrast Method. Uses word pairs that have multiple (maximal) phonemic contrasts or maximal opposition. ● Select word pairs that contrast maximally; for instance, select such word pairs as chain-main; canman; gear-fear (the initial phoneme in the first word of each pair is the target of treatment; the initial phoneme in the second word in each pair is the phoneme with maximal opposition) ● Use the general procedure outlined for Minimal Pair Contrast Method Cycles Approach. A phonological pattern approach designed to treat children with multiple misarticulations and highly unintelligible speech; approach consists of treatment cycles which vary between 5 weeks and 16 weeks; includes auditory stimulation and production practices; developed by B. Hodson and E. Paden.

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Hodson, B., & Paden, E. (1983). Targeting intelligible speech: A phonological approach to remediation. San Diego: CollegeHill Press. Pen˜a-Brooks, A., & Hegde, M. N. (2000). Assessment and treatment of articulation and phonological disorders in children. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Distinctive Feature Approach. Articulation treatment approach based on a distinctive feature analysis; the goal is to establish missing Distinctive Features or feature contrasts by teaching relevant sounds; technically, not a treatment procedure; approach assumes that teaching a feature in the context of a few sounds will result in generalized production of other sounds with the same feature or features; more research is needed to fully support this assumption; approach is most useful with children who have multiple misarticulations that can be grouped on the basis of distinctive features, not useful for (a) treating distorted sounds as the analysis is not relevant to such errors; (b) treating a client with only a few errors that do not form patterns based on distinctive features; developed and researched by multiple investigators. ● Obtain an extended conversational speech sample 94

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Costello, J. M., & Onstein, J. (1976). The modification of multiple articulation errors based on distinctive feature theory. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 41, 199–215. McReynolds, L. V., & Bennet, S. (1972). Distinctive feature generalization in articulation training. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 37, 462–470.

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Multiple Phoneme Approach. A method of articulation remediation in which all errors are treated in all sessions; appropriate for children with six or more errors; based on behavioral principles; focuses on sound production in conversational speech; does not emphasize auditory discrimination training; consists of establishment, transfer, and maintenance phases; each phase has several steps; highly structured and carefully sequenced; developed and researched by R. McCabe and D. Bradley. ● Obtain conversational speech sample of about 150 words ● Mark each word that contains at least one error ● Calculate percentage of words spoken correctly (Whole Word Accuracy: WWA) ● Use WWA measure to supplement single-word articulation tests Phase I, Step 1. Establishment. Goal: Production of consonants in response to a printed letter or phonetic symbol representing it. ● Show an upper- or lowercase letter and ask ‘‘Do you know what sound this letter makes?’’ (visual cue only) • Ask the client to produce the sound in isolation on five successive trials (record the correct responses) • If the client cannot do this, record the error and move to the next step ● Give verbal instructions along with auditory and tactile stimuli; use any other effective procedure (auditory, visual, and phonetic-placement); continue until four out of five attempts are correct; move to the next step

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to imitate (auditory and visual stimuli only); seek five consecutively correct responses; then, move to the next step ● Present only the letter (visual stimulus only); ask the client to make the sound; seek five consecutively correct responses (Skip visual only step for children under age 5) ● In the first session or two, include sounds produced correctly to give experience of success; omit these sounds in subsequent sessions ● Reinforce correct responses (verbal praise, tokens) Phase I, Step 2. Holding Procedure. Designed to maintain the correct production of sounds produced in isolation when they are not yet advanced to syllable or word levels; other sounds are moved to these higher levels. ● Evoke one correct response by showing the letter once and asking the client to produce the sound (visual stimulus only) Phase II. Transfer. Goal: Production of all target sounds in conversational speech; simultaneous training of five or more sounds; sounds may be at different levels. Phase II, Step 1: Syllable. Used only when the client fails to produce the sound correctly in 6 out of 10 probe words (5 words with the sound in the initial position and 5 words with the sound in the final position) ● Provide one auditory-visual model or one visualonly stimulus ● Ask the client to produce the sound with a variety of vowels ● Ask the client to produce the sound in both initial and final positions

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or 90% correct in one session Phase II, Step 2: Word. Goal: Accurate production of target sounds in 25 to 30 varied words to be later included in sentences (nouns, verbs, modifiers, and prepositions). ● Present printed words or picture stimuli ● Ask the client to produce the word ● Accept erred production of nontarget phonemes ● Move training to the sentence level when the sound in a given position (e.g., initial position) is produced with 80% accuracy over two sessions or 90% accuracy in one session ● Continue training at the word level when the sound in a given position (e.g., final position) does not meet the criterion ● Consider using another approach, such as the minimal contrast therapy or phonological process approach, to eliminate the final consonant deletion process Phase II, Step 3: Phrase and Sentence. Goal: Correct production of all sounds in words; self-monitoring. ● Construct phrases and sentences (imperatives, declaratives, and interrogatives) with words already trained, adding new words as needed ● Present Rebuses, Blissymbolics, or pictures for nonreaders ● Model phrases and sentences ● Ask the client to imitate ● Note phonetic contexts in which errors occur; have the client practice the production in these contexts ● Have the client practice words in which sounds are produced incorrectly as well as those that precede or follow such words 98

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curacy in one session, calculating accuracy with target sounds only Phase II. Step 4: Reading and Storytelling. Goal: Accurate production of target sounds in connected utterances containing four to six words. ● Select reading materials that are easy for the child ● For nonreaders, select comic books, picture books, and sequence cards ● Tell a story and ask the child to retell it ● Seek whole word accuracy and 80% correct production over two sessions or 90% in one session Phase II. Step 5: Conversation. Goal: Accurate production of all sounds used in conversational speech. ● Begin to monitor conversational speech when even one or two sounds reach this level ● Encourage discussions, descriptions, comments, questions, state facts, identify cause-effect relations, talk about emotions and desires; do not just answer questions ● When multiple sounds need to be monitored, group sounds on the basis of manner or place of articulation; monitor sounds in one group for 3 to 5 minutes; then, monitor sounds in another group, and so on ● Count every spoken word as a response and calculate the whole word accuracy level ● Note the context in which certain sounds are misarticulated and use these contexts for additional practice ● Seek 80% correct production of all words over two sessions or 90% in one session for children 6 years and older; seek 69% criterion for younger children 99

Articulation: Specific Programs A Phase III: Maintenance. Goal: Maintenance of 90% whole word accuracy in conversational speech produced in various speaking situations without treatment or external monitoring. ● Have the client return to the clinic; assess and monitor sound productions ● Visit classrooms ● Maintain telephone contact with the client and the family ● Obtain reports from others ● Have others monitor accuracy in various speaking situations ● Monitor for 3 months McCabe, R., & Bradley, D. ( 1975). Systematic multiple phonemic approach to articulation therapy. Acta Symbolica, 6, 1–18. Pen˜a-Brooks, A., & Hegde, M. N. (2000). Assessment and treatment of articulation and phonological disorders in children. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Paired-Stimuli Approach. A method of articulation remediation that depends on identifying a Key Word in which a target sound appears only once in either initial or final position and is correctly produced 9 out of 10 times; uses key words to teach the production of sounds in other contexts; explicitly uses operant reinforcement contingencies; uses pictures to evoke the target words; highly structured and carefully sequenced; a single speech sound is the target at any one time; developed and researched by J. Irwin and A. Weston. Word Level Consult Weston and Irwin(1971/1975) for assigned key words, questions to be asked, and expected answers. ● Select the target phonemes for the client

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do you see?’’ ‘‘That’s what?’’ and ‘‘What did you say that was?’’) as you present the first and the fourth key words and their 10 training words ● Adhere to the criterion of 8 out of 10 correct sentences over two successive training strings Conversational Level ● Engage the child in conversation ● Stop the conversation (a) when the child correctly produces a target sound in four words or (b) when the child incorrectly produces a target sound in any word; model the correct production; ask the child to repeat it ● Reinforce the child verbally and by showing your scoring of correct responses ● Subsequently, require the correct production of a target sound in seven words; probe when the child can do this ● In subsequent stages, require the correct production of a target sound in 10 and 13 words: probe when the child can do this ● Give verbal praise and visual feedback of scoring only when all productions are correct ● For all probes, take a conversational speech sample; no feedback of any sort during probes ● Terminate training on a given sound when the child gives 15 consecutively correct productions of a target sound in conversation held on two successive treatment sessions separated by at least 1 day Irwin, J. V., & Weston, A. J. (1971/1975). Paired Stimuli Kit. Milwaukee, WI: Fox Point. Pen˜a-Brooks, A., & Hegde, M. N. (2000). Assessment and treatment of articulation and phonological disorders in children. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

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Phonological Knowledge Approach. An approach to treating phonological disorders in children; based on the assumption that children’s knowledge of phonological rules of the adult system is reflected in their productions; the greater the consistency of correct productions in varied contexts, the higher the level of phonological knowledge and vice versa; treatment begins with sounds that reflect least knowledge and ends with those that reflect greater degrees of knowledge; proposed by M. Elbert and J. Gierut and researched by Gierut and associates. ● Obtain a representative, continuous, conversational speech sample • sample all sounds • sample sounds in all word positions • sample each sound in several different words • sample each word more than once • sample production of minimal pairs (cat/bat) • sample morphophonemic alterations (dog/doggie; run/running) ● Analyze the sample • create the child’s phonetic inventory (all the sounds the child produces, correctly or incorrectly) • create the child’s phonemic inventory (sounds the child uses contrastingly or those that signal meaning) • find out the distribution of sounds (distribution by word position and by morphemes) • create hierarchical arrangement of sound productions that reflect least knowledge (misarticulations in all word positions and in all morphemes) to most knowledge (no misarticulations) ● Treat the sounds that reflect the least knowledge first and move up through the hierarchy 104

Articulation: Specific Programs A ● Use the Contrast Approach (described earlier in this

section) in teaching sounds • use near-minimal pairs (words that differ by more than one sound) if necessary and initially • move from imitation to spontaneous productions • reinforce the child for correct productions • in spontaneous production training, ask the child to name and sort pictures into target and contrast piles (sorting) • present an array of pictures and ask the child to select a picture, name it, and find its minimal pair match (matching) ● Promote generalization and maintenance by varying the context of sound productions, selecting childspecific stimulus items, loosely structuring treatment in later stages, and so forth Elbert, M., & Gierut, J. (1986). Handbook of clinical phonology. San Diego: College-Hill Press.

Phonological Process Approach. An approach to treating articulation disorders; technically, not a treatment procedure because it does not involve any unique treatment techniques; an approach to treatment based on the assumptions that multiple errors reflect the operation of certain phonological rules and that the problem is essentially phonemic, not phonetic; group errors based on Phonological Processes; targets the elimination of processes by teaching only a few individual phonemes within a process on the assumption that other, untreated phonemes within the same process will be produced without training—an assumption with mixed evidence; untrained phonemes may or may not be produced; uses several established methods of teaching sounds; researched by multiple investigators; includes multiple programs with varying degrees of empirical research, some with negligible controlled research base; the Cycles Approach and the 105

Articulation: Specific Programs A Phonological Knowledge Approach are examples of phonological process approaches to treatment. ● Obtain a conversational speech sample that reflects a variety of words and linguistic contexts in which all sounds are produced; may use one of the several available protocols of phonological analysis ● Identify the Phonological Processes that account for error patterns ● Select processes for elimination through teaching specific sounds or groups of sounds; for instance: • identify all phonemes that are misarticulated within a process (e.g., all final consonants a child omits—the final consonant deletion process) • teach only a few final consonants • use any effective procedure to teach the consonants • use the comprehensive treatment approach described at the beginning of this main entry with modeling, shaping, manual guidance (phonetic placement), positive reinforcement and corrective feedback • alternatively, use paired-stimuli approach, contrast approach, or any other technique supported by controlled evidence • teach sounds in syllables, words, phrases, and sentences ● When a few final consonant productions meet the training criterion, probe to see if other, untreated sounds within the pattern are produced correctly without training, based on generalization (e.g., other untreated final consonants that are omitted) ● If there is no generalized production of untreated phonemes, then treat them as well ● If untreated phonemes are produced on the basis of generalization, select another phonological process for elimination; teach selected phonemes within the process; administer probes 106

Articulation: Specific Programs A ● Schedule maintenance activities as appropriate

Pen˜a-Brooks, A., & Hegde, M. N. (2000). Assessment and treatment of articulation and phonological disorders in children. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Sensory-Motor Approach. An articulation treatment approach based on the assumption that syllable is the basic unit of training; requires a context in which a misarticulated sound is correctly produced; focuses on increasing auditory, tactile, and proprioceptive awareness of motor patterns involved in speech sound production; does not include auditory discrimination training nor training at the sound level; developed and researched by E. McDonald. ● For each target sound, find a context in which the child produces it correctly ● If necessary, administer a deep test such as McDonald’s Deep Test of Articulation to find a context in which an otherwise misarticulated sound is correctly produced (e.g., in the context of watch-sun, a child who generally misarticulates the /s/ may produce it correctly) Practice With Sounds Produced Correctly ● Select a sound the child can produce correctly and combine it with vowels to create duplicated bisyllables (kiki, koko, kaka, kuku, etc.) ● Begin treatment by having the child imitate your production of the bisyllables; place equal stress on both the syllables ● Next, have the child imitate your production of bisyllables with primary stress on the first syllable ● Then, have the child imitate your production of bisyllables with primary stress on the second syllable ● Ask the child to describe the placement of the articulators and the direction of the articulatory movements 107

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syllables with the same consonant but different vowels (e.g., moving from kiki to koko); provide training such that a variety of articulatory movements are practiced for a given sound ● Give similar training with other consonants the child produces correctly ● Initiate training on trisyllables (e.g., kukuku or lalala); follow the procedure used to train bisyllables Training Correct Production of Misarticulated Sounds. Begin training on the typically misarticulated sound with a context in which it is correctly produced (e.g., /s/ is produced correctly in the context of watch-sun, a deep test item) In successive stages, ask the child to say watch-sun: ● with slow motion ● with equal stress on both the syllables ● with primary stress on the first syllable ● with primary stress on the second syllable ● and prolong the /s/ until a signal is given to complete the word ● in sentences (‘‘Watch, the sun will burn you.’’) ● in other and longer sentences and with different stress patterns ● use such a performance criterion as 20 consecutively correct productions to move from one level to the next Next, vary the phonetic contexts (e.g., watch-sit, watch-saw) ● have the child practice correct production of the target sound in different phonetic contexts by varying the words in which the target sound appears) ● have the child practice correct production in the context of different first words (e.g., teach-sand, reach-soon)

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tally different phonetic context (e.g., mop-sun or book-sun) ● implement generalization and maintenance activities McDonald, E. T. (1964). Articulation testing and treatment: A sensory motor approach. Pittsburgh, PA: Stanwix House. Pen˜a-Brooks, A., & Hegde, M. N. (2000). Assessment and treatment of articulation and phonological disorders in children. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Traditional Approach. An articulation treatment approach developed for the most part by Van Riper who included several techniques from various sources; sounds are trained in isolation, in syllables, in words, and in sentences; training includes four levels: (1) Perceptual Training or Ear Training; (2) Production Training: establishment; (3) production training: stabilizing the productions; and (4) production training: transferring the productions; used or researched by multiple investigators. Perceptual Training (Ear Training) ● Demonstrate how the target sound is produced ● Ask the child to raise a hand when he or she hears the sound in isolation among sounds that are similar and among sounds that are dissimilar ● Ask the child to raise a hand when he or she hears the target sound in first words, then phrases, and finally in sentences ● Ask the child to identify the position of the sound in words (initial, medial, or final) ● Bombard the client with productions of the target sound ● Have the child judge your correct and incorrect productions of a target sound

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Articulation: Specific Programs A Production Training Sound Establishment ● Ask the child to imitate your correct productions of target sounds in isolation, in syllables, or in words ● Vary the phonetic contexts of such productions ● Use contexts in which the target sound is correctly produced ● Use such techniques as Phonetic Placement, Moto-Kinesthetic Method, and Shaping to teach the sound production Stabilization ● Continue training the sound in isolation to encourage more consistent production ● Vary the number and intensity of productions ● Switch from one sound to the other ● Ask the child to respond to printed letters that represent the target sounds ● Have the child produce the sounds in nonsense syllables or clusters ● Begin training the sounds in words when the sounds are consistently produced correctly in nonsense syllables ● Move from simple to complex words; continue training until the sound productions are stabilized in a variety of words and in each word position (initial, medial, and final) ● Train at the phrase level if necessary ● Move to sentences; vary the sentence lengths; move from simpler and shorter to more complex and longer sentences and from those with single occurrence of the target sound to those with multiple occurrences ● Have the child produce sentences along with you in slow motion and at rapid rate

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Artificial Larynx A ● Begin training at the conversational level when

the child can fluently and easily produce the target sounds in sentences ● Structure the conversation initially to maximize opportunities for the production of target sounds ● Move to spontaneous conversational speech ● Have the child read to further stabilize sound productions Transfer (Carry-over) ● Initiate carry-over activities when the child can produce the sounds correctly in unstructured conversational speech ● Give specific speech assignments for the child to complete at home ● Require reports from parents on assignments ● Teach self-monitoring ● Create varied speaking situations for the client to use the target sounds Pen˜a-Brooks, A., & Hegde, M. N. (2000). Assessment and treatment of articulation and phonological disorders in children. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Van Riper, C. , & Emerick, L. (1984). Speech correction: An introduction to speech pathology and audiology (7th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Artificial Larynx. Mechanical larynges used in the communicative rehabilitation of patients with laryngectomy; generates a mechanical sound that is articulated into speech with people whose larynges have been removed because of such life-threatening diseases as cancer; the same as Electronic Device for Alaryngeal Speech or Pneumatic Device for Alaryngeal Speech.

Aspiration. A condition in which food, fluid, and secretion penetrate below the true vocal folds; can cause asphyxiation and aspiration pneumonia; potential complications in patients with Dysphagia.

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Aspiration Pneumonia A Aspiration Pneumonia. Lung infection due to aspiration; a complication often found in patients with Dysphagia.

Assessment. Procedures that include (a) description of a client’s existing and nonexisting communicative behaviors, background variables, and associated factors to evaluate or diagnose a communicative problem; (b) clinical measurement of a person’s communicative behaviors. ● Obtain case history ● Interview client, the caregivers, family members, and others concerned ● Conduct an orofacial examination ● Make client-specific judgments on use of standardized or nonstandardized measures ● Use measures appropriate to the client and his or her ethnic, cultural, and linguistic background ● Screen hearing ● Obtain a speech-language sample ● Analyze results ● Draw conclusions; make a diagnosis; recommend treatment; disseminate information to the client, the family, and the referring professional ● Consult books on assessment in speech-language pathology and PGASLP

Assimilation Processes. A group of Phonological Processes in which the productions of dissimilar phonemes sound more alike; in phonological treatment, the objective is to eliminate such processes; major assimilation processes include: ● Alveolar assimilation: substitution of an alveolar sound by a nonalveolar sound (e.g., substitution of /d/ for /p/) ● Devoicing: substitution of a voiceless final sound for a voiced (e.g., /k/ for /g/ in final positions) ● Devoicing of final consonants: substitution of a voiceless final consonant for a voiced (e.g., /t/ for /d/) ● Labial assimilation: substitution of a labial sound for a nonlabial (e.g., /b/ for /d/) 112

Assimilative Nasality A ● Nasal assimilation: substitution of a nasal consonant for a

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voiced sound that follows a vowel (e.g., /t/ for /d/)

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voiceless sound preceding a vowel (e.g., /b/ for /p/ in prevocalic positions) ● Reduplication: repetition of a syllable, resulting in substitution of one for another (e.g., wawa for water) ● Velar assimilation: substitution of a velar consonant for a nonvelar (e.g., /g/ for /d/)

Assimilative Nasality. Undesirable nasal resonance on vowels that are adjacent to nasal consonants.

Assistive Listening Devices. Devices other than the traditional hearing aids that help persons with hearing impairment in various communicative situations; used in situations in which the traditional hearing aids are less effective; most capable of transmitting speech signals directly from the mouth of the speaker to the ears of the listener; see also Aural Rehabilitation; include the following: ● Frequency Modulated (FM) auditory trainers that offer wireless connection between a speaker and a listener; consists of a transmitter with a microphone and a receiver with earphones; signal is transmitted to the receiver through radio frequency and is unaffected by noise in the room, a problem not solved by traditional hearing aids; may be used in group aural rehabilitation ● Infrared listening systems that include transmitters that send messages on pulses of light and receivers worn by individuals to receive and decode those messages; useful in large listening environments such as concert halls, theaters, houses of worship, and classrooms. ● Signaling or alerting devices (also known as environmental adaptations) that include mechanisms to amplify telephone ringing; flashing lights that alert a person with 113

Ataxia A hearing impairment to incoming phone calls, smoke or fire alarm, a baby’s cry, ringing of a door bell, and so forth; vibratory mechanism that wakes up a person with hearing impairment from sleep ● Television or radio amplifiers that include a small amplifier, a microphone that is clipped to the television or radio, and ear phones the person needing extra amplification of signals wears; volume may be adjusted on the amplifier, thus allowing louder signals only for the person using the system ● Text telephones (TTs) and telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDDs) that allow two persons communicating over a phone to type their messages; allows display of typed messages on a small screen on the telephone; may be a part of a relay service that allows a hearing person without the special equipment to speak to a staff person who types in the message, which is transmitted to the TT used by the person with hearing impairment

Ataxia. A neurological disorder characterized by disturbed balance and movement due to injury to the cerebellum.

Ataxic Dysarthria. A type of motor speech disorder resulting from damage to the cerebellum. See Treatment of Dysarthria: Specific Types under Dysarthria.

Athetosis.

A neurological disorder characterized by slow, writhing, worm-like movements due to injury to the extrapyramidal motor pathways.

Atrophy. Wasting away of tissues or organs. Attention Disorders. Disorders that affect a person’s reaction to stimuli in the environment; disorder that affects the duration of response to stimuli; attention is a prerequisite for all kinds of learning; disturbed attention makes learning difficult or impossible; compounds memory deficits; often found in persons with neurological disease or trauma; 114

Attention Disorders A attention is a treatment target for patients with aphasia, dementia, traumatic brain injury, mental retardation, autism, and similar disorders. ● Make a thorough assessment of attentional deficits; consult the cited sources and the PGASLP ● Integrate attentional training activities to other functional activities such as communication training ● Work directly on functional attentional tasks (e.g., paying attention to speech or instructions; to environmental cues; to treatment stimuli) instead of abstract and nonfunctional attentional tasks (e.g., showing a bunch of playing cards and asking the patient to indicate when a red card is shown; such mental exercises as counting backwards; listening to auditory clicks and signaling when there is a shift in the pattern of clicks) ● Consult with the family and health care staff in identifying attentional deficits of concern and functional treatment activities and goals ● Design a treatment program that is client-specific, functional, and helps pay attention to environmental events; as a speech-language pathologist, consider strategies to improve the patient’s attention in all treatment tasks ● Work with the family and health care staff to ensure that they, too, use the same strategies as you do ● Select treatment stimuli that are relevant to the patient’s interests and premorbid hobbies; prepare colorful and attention-getting stimuli for treatment ● Implement the treatment initially in a quiet, simple, clutterfree place with minimal stimuli; gradually broaden the treatment environment to include more natural settings in which you reinforce attentional behaviors ● Conduct treatment sessions sitting in front of the client; make sure there is enough lighting on your face and on the treatment stimuli and activities ● Give all treatment instructions in simple, brief, and direct language; repeat, if necessary; break down the instructions 115

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Lezak, M. D. (1995). Neuropsychological assessment (3rd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. Mateer, C. A., & Mapou, R. L. (1996). Understanding, evaluating, and mapping attention disorders following brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 11, 1–16.

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Audience Generalization.

Production of unreinforced responses in the presence of persons not involved in training; a strategy necessary in almost all cases to achieve generalized production of clinically established behaviors. ● Invite persons not involved in training to treatment sessions conducted in later stages of therapy ● Evoke behavior (e.g., fluency, correct production of speech sounds, naming, appropriate vocal qualities) ● Reinforce target behavior ● Have the visitor engage the client in conversational speech ● Have the visitor reinforce the target communication skills ● Take the client to nonclinical situations and evoke and reinforce target communication skills in the presence of other persons

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Treatment designed to teach clients to distinguish between correct and incorrect articulation of speech produced by the clinician and other persons; used on the assumption that misarticulations are due to a failure to hear differences between different speech sounds and that auditory discrimination training is a precursor to speech sound production training; assumption questioned by some clinicians who cite experimental evidence showing that production training will induce discrimination as well; same as Perceptual Training, a part of several traditional articulation treatment programs; a clinically practical strategy is to train production first and then probe for discrimination and train discrimination only if sound discrimination problems persist and negatively affect communication; it is likely that in most cases, production training will be sufficient to generate auditory discrimination as well. ● Describe the target sound, how it is made, and how it sounds 118

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Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Augmentative communication includes methods of communication that enhance and expand extremely limited oral means of communication by nonvocal means; alternative communication includes methods that replace oral communication by teaching substitute modes of communication; augmentative alternative methods may be integrated in rehabilitation; some augmentative communication may involve speech generated mechanically; includes various means of communication, some of which are more technologically oriented than others; usually used for persons who have limited oral communication skills because of severe clinical conditions including aphasia, autism, cerebral palsy, and other neurological disorders, deafness, dementia, dysarthria, glossectomy, intubation, laryngectomy, mental retardation, tracheostomy, and traumatic head injury; for procedures, see Augmentative Communication, Gestural (Unaided); Augmentative Communication, Gestural-Assisted (Aided); Augmentative Communication, Neuro-Assisted (Aided). 119

Augmentative Communication, Aided A Basic Principles of Selecting an Augmentative Communication Mode or System ● Assess the client’s speech as well as nonspeech com-

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Augmentative Communication, Gestural (Unaided). Methods of communication that use patterned muscle movements (gestures) to enhance oral communication but do not use instruments or external aids; gestures play a crucial role in conveying the speaker’s message; appropriate for all persons with severely impaired oral, expressive communication. ● Teach gestures for Yes and No to all speakers with extremely limited expressive oral communication because of severely impaired motor performance but relatively intact receptive language • teach the client to gesture Yes or No in response to a series of common questions with a carrier phrase ‘‘Do ?’’ you want • shape a clear gesture that all communication partners can understand 120

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Aug Comm, Gestural-Assisted (Aided) A • teach the one-hand version for those with one paralyzed hand • teach signs that express concrete ideas first and those that express abstract ideas later ● Teach American Sign Language (ASL or AMESLAN) • select initially the signs that express Mands (basic needs, requests) • teach signs that express concrete ideas first and those that express abstract ideas later Beukelman, D. R., & Mirenda, P. (1998). Augmentative and alternative communication: Management of severe communication disorders in children and adults (2nd ed.). Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes. Glennen, S. L., & DeCoste, D. (1997). Handbook of augmentative and alternative communication. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Silverman, F. H. (1995). Communication for the speechless (3rd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Augmentative Communication, Gestural-Assisted (Aided). Methods of communication in which gestures are used to (a) select or scan messages displayed on a nonmechanical device (e.g., a communication board) or (b) display messages on a mechanical device (e.g., a computer monitor); used with many persons with minimal expressive language; the initial use of gestural-assisted means may promote appropriate vocalization or word productions in many clients; the emergent vocal productions may be strengthened and expanded; includes a variety of nonmechanical and mechanical methods.

Use Pictures and Symbols to Teach Functional Communication ● Teach the client to communicate with photographs and

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Aug Comm, Gestural-Assisted (Aided) A • teach the client to express a particular message through a picture (e.g., teach the client to point to or look at a picture of a person sleeping to communicate that he or she is tired or sleepy) • teach the client to express bodily states (e.g., pain in a certain part) by pointing to or looking at specific body parts on a line drawing ● Teach the client to communicate with various symbols that may be displayed on a communication board; select among many symbol systems that are available on the market; for instance: • Picsyms, a set of graphic symbols that represent nouns, verbs, and prepositions • Pic Symbols (Pictogram Ideogram Communication), which are white drawings on a black background • Sig Symbols which are based on American Sign Language (ASL); use them especially in conjunction with ASL • Blissymbolics which are a set of semi-iconic and abstract symbols that can be taught to persons of any language; teach the client to combine symbols to form more complex messages • Premack-type Symbols, or the Carrier Symbols which are abstract plastic shapes; associate words and phrases with each shape; teach the client to arrange and rearrange the plastic shapes like printed words • traditional orthography (e.g., the English alphabet); teach the client to spell out the word (by pointing to or scanning) along with the alphabet, display digits 1 through 10 and a set of common phrases or sentences so that not every word has to be spelled out or scanned (Scanning in Augmentative Communication) ● Teach the client to communicate with Rebuses • use rebuses (pictures that represent objects or events along with words, grammatic morphemes, or both) 123

Aug Comm, Gestural-Assisted (Aided) A • teach the client to add grammatic morphemes to a picture or a word (e.g., adding s to the picture of a book to suggest books) • combine rebuses to form more complex utterances

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Aug Comm, Gestural-Assisted (Aided) A hand gestures, finger movements, eye gestures, gaze, headpointers, or headsticks. ● Teach the client to communicate by drawing symbols or pictures • teach the client to draw simple line drawings to communicate • let the client use paper, magic slate, or any other convenient surface ● Teach the client to communicate by writing (Traditional Orthography) • teach conventional writing to nonverbal children who can master it • teach them initially to write simple, functional messages • teach them to write more complex messages

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nism that the client can use with little effort and learn to generate signals for the electronic device (such as those that are specially constructed or a modified or regular microcomputer); consider push switches, push plates (plate-like structures that when touched will generate a signal), large and specially designed keyboards, joy sticks, squeeze bulbs, and several other available types of selection devices ● Select an appropriate display system to show messages when the client activates the switching mechanism; these may be computer screens, liquid-crystal displays (found on calculators), printed outputs (as with a computer printer), and many other kinds of special displays ● Select an appropriate control electronic unit (a dedicated augmentative communication unit or a computer) ● Teach the client to use the device; start with simpler messages; give plenty of practice in using the switching 125

Aug Comm, High Technology A mechanism; increase the complexity of messages in gradual steps; train the communicative partners in the environment Beukelman, D. R., & Mirenda, P. (1998). Augmentative and alternative communication: Management of severe communication disorders in children and adults (2nd ed.). Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes. Silverman, F. H. (1995). Communication for the speechless (3rd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Augmentative Communication, High Technology. Methods of communication that enhance or expand (and rarely substitute for) vocal communication by external means that use sophisticated electronic technology, including computers; generate speech or printed messages; usually software run; more versatile than low-technology augmentative communication.

Augmentative Communication, Low Technology. Methods of communication that enhance or expand (and rarely substitute) vocal communication by external means that use no or limited electronic technology; there is no message storage, printed output, or speech output; a communication board with letters and words on it is an example.

Augmentative Communication, Neuro-Assisted (Aided). Methods of communication that use such bioelectrical signals as muscle action potentials to activate and display messages on a computer monitor; technically, a variety of switching devices; used for persons who are so profoundly impaired motorically that they cannot use a manual switching device; the communicator needs to have electrodes attached to the skin surface to pick-up and transmit muscle action potential signals to the device; this technology is not well developed. ● Train the client to use muscle action potentials to generate signals to an electronic communication device

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Augmentative Communication, Unaided. Methods of communication that enhance or expand (and rarely substitute for) vocal communication without external or mechanical aids; includes a more formal, systematic, intensive, or extensive use of gestures, signs, and facial expressions to supplement oral (speech) communication. Aural Rehabilitation. An educational and clinical program implemented, for the most part, by audiologists; includes the assessment of hearing impairment in adults and children; counseling; selection and fitting of hearing aids and auditory training; use of group amplification systems in educational and communication training sessions; often implemented by a team of specialists including audiologist, otologist, special education specialists, psychologists, and speech-language pathologists; for speech-language pathologists’ treatment of communication disorders in persons with hearing problems, see Hearing Impairment; also see Hard of Hearing; and Hearing Loss; note that in an aural rehabilitation program, the following are an audiologist’s responsibilities: ● Counseling clients with hearing impairment • giving information to persons with hearing impairment on available services

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Sensory consequences of responses that reinforce those responses (e.g., the sensation a child with autism derives from banging his or her head). Autosomal Dominant. Any chromosome apart from the sex chromosome is autosomal; not sex-linked; dominant indicates that the defective gene dominates its normal partner in its phenotypic expression. Aversive Stimuli. Events that people work hard to avoid or move away from; reduction in aversive stimulation is the essence of negative reinforcement; a behavior that reduces negative experiences tends to increase in frequency; in treatment, positive reinforcement is preferable to negative reinforcement. Avoidance. A behavior that prevents the occurrence of an aversive event and hence is reinforced; negatively reinforced behavior; in treatment, target is to reduce avoidance if judged undesirable; a typical target in persons who stutter; typically, the client is made to face previously avoided situations with appropriate clinical support; for instance, in reducing avoidance of certain speaking situations by persons who stutter: ● Build a hierarchy of most to least frequently avoided speaking situations or tasks ● As the client becomes more fluent during treatment, introduce the client to least frequently avoided situations first and move up the hierarchy ● Offer training in situations the clients avoids; for instance: • take the client to a restaurant and have him or her order food (an avoided responses); monitor fluency and provide subtle reinforcement and corrective feedback 134

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Events, objects, and opportunities for selected behaviors that become available to clients who exchange their earned tokens in treatment sessions. ● Have a collection of backup reinforcers ● Give tokens to reinforce target responses ● Exchange tokens for selected events, objects, or opportunities for certain behaviors

Basal Ganglia. Structures located deep within the brain and just above midbrain that are important for movement control; part of the extrapyramidal system; include the caudate nucleus, the putamen nucleus, and globus pallidus.

Baselines. Recorded rates of responses in the absence of planned intervention; also known as the operant level of a response; reliability or stability of repeated measures is a required characteristic; help establish the clinician accountability; in treatment research, help rule out extraneous variables; a necessary measure before starting treatment in all cases; should be established in Baselines, Conversational Speech and Discrete Trials, Evoked and Discrete Trials, Modeled formats.

Baselines, Conversational Speech. Measures of target behaviors produced in conversational speech in the absence of treatment; an important pretreatment measure. ● Record a conversational speech sample in as naturalistic a manner as possible • with children, have toys, pictures, books, and other materials to evoke speech; engage the child in conversational speech with the help of the materials; if necessary, focus on the target features to be measured (e.g., drawing the child’s attention to actions you perform to evoke the ing) • with adults, conduct conversation on their favorite topics • in most cases, the client interview might also be used to measure the production of target behaviors 138

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Baseline Evoked Trials. Discrete baseline trials that are temporally separated; each attempt to produce a target behavior is discretely measured; no modeling of the target response; no consequences for the correct or incorrect responses. ● Place stimulus item in front of client (e.g., a picture of a ball) or demonstrate an action (e.g., moving a toy car) ● Ask the relevant predetermined question (e.g., ‘‘What is this?’’ ‘‘What am I doing?’’ or ‘‘What is happening?’’) ● Wait a few seconds for the client to respond ● Record the client’s response on the recording sheet ● Remove the stimulus item (move it toward you, away from the client) ● Wait 2–3 seconds to signify the end of a trial ● Begin the next trial with a different item

Baseline Modeled Trials. A discrete baseline trial in which the clinician models the correct response for the client to imitate; no consequences for the correct or incorrect responses. ● Place a stimulus item in front of the client or demonstrate an action ● Ask the predetermined question (e.g., ‘‘What is this?’’) Immediately model the correct response (e.g., ‘‘Johnny, say ball.’’) ● Wait a few seconds for the client to respond ● Record the client’s response on the recording sheet ● Remove the stimulus item (move it toward you, away from the client) ● Wait 2–3 seconds to signify the end of a trial ● Begin the next trial with a different stimulus item

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A behavioral treatment procedure in which the clinician rapidly and repeatedly evokes a high-probability response and then immediately commands a low-probability response; often used to reduce noncompliance; in increasing the frequency of a low-probability response: ● Find a response the client readily performs (e.g., hand clapping) ● Model and have the child imitate that high-probability response repeatedly and in rapid succession ● Immediately, ask the child to open his or her mouth (an example of a low-probability response) ● Reinforce the occurrence of the low-probability response

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A method used to reduce incorrect responses or shape and increase desirable responses in treatment; includes mechanical feedback given to the client on vocal pitch and intensity, respiration, galvanic skin response, and muscle action potential level.

Bite Block. A small block of acrylic or putty custom-made for a client who holds it between the lateral upper and lower teeth; observed to improve speech intelligibility in clients who have abnormal jaw movements; recommended for some clients with dysarthria.

Blissymbolics. A set of symbols used to communicate nonorally; meant to be an international language; more widely applied and researched than other symbol systems in teaching communication to severely handicapped clients; symbols may be combined to form complex expressions; developed by C. Bliss; see Augmentative Communication, Gestural-Assisted (Aided).

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Booster Treatment. Treatment given any time after the client was dismissed from the original treatment; part of response maintenance strategy. ● Conduct periodic follow-ups ● If the follow-up measures show decline in response rate, give booster treatment ● Use the original or newer, more effective procedures

Botulinum Toxin Injection. A medical treatment procedure for neurogenic or idiopathic adductor spasmodic dysphonia and adductor spasmodic dysphonia that does not respond to behavioral treatment; botulinum toxin is injected into the thyroarytenoid muscle unilaterally or bilaterally; effects last about 3 months.

Bradykinesia. Slowness of movements; difficulty in stopping movement once initiated; freezing of movement.

Breathiness. A voice quality that results when there is excessive air leakage during phonation because of inadequate approximation of the vocal folds; caused by various factors; treatment varies by cause.

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Carry-over. Generalized production of any behavior taught in a special setting in natural and untreated settings and in relation to novel stimuli; an important goal of clinical intervention; the same as Generalization.

Cathode-ray Display (CRT). A video display system used in many desktop computers; more easily read under varied lighting conditions than the Liquid Crystal Display; used in some devices of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ACC).

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A congenital, nonprogressive neurological disorder that affects motor control; caused by injury to the cerebral levels during the prenatal or perinatal period; symptoms tend to improve with growth; causes speech disorders, mostly dysarthria; symptoms related to speech include respiratory control problems, laryngeal dysfunction resulting in voice problems, possible velopharyngeal inadequacy, potential language disorders, and significant articulation problems (dysarthria); may involve cognitive functions; may be associated with feeding problems.

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Treatment of Cerebral Palsy General Principles ● Work closely with the team of specialists serving children with cerebral palsy ● Counsel parents about the effects of cerebral palsy on communication and their role in stimulating language at home ● Work closely with parents throughout the treatment duration ● Make a thorough assessment of communication problems and design treatment to suit the child’s problems, needs, and strengths ● Consider educational demands made or to be made on the child in planning treatment; work closely with educators ● Borrow techniques from other communicative disorders in children (e.g., language disorders, articulation and phonological disorders, dysarthria, voice disorders) as cerebral palsy is not the name of a unique speech disorder; modify the standard techniques to suit the individual child and his or her specific symptom complex Treatment Procedures ● Treatment of language disorders • train parents to stimulate language at home; see Parent Training and Language Stimulation by Parents • assess the child’s language development periodically to determine the need for formal clinical treatment • implement formal language treatment if necessary • use the treatment procedures described under Language Disorders in Children and modify the procedures to suit the individual child with cerebral palsy ● Treatment of voice disorders • diagnose the specific voice disorder; when appropriate, use one or more treatment techniques described 145

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Chaining. A behavioral technique of linking elements of a complex skill; similar to shaping; useful in teaching a variety of nonverbal and verbal skills, although most frequently employed in teaching self-help skills; includes forward chaining and backward chaining. ● Initially, make a task analysis and identify the steps involved in achieving a complex task (e.g., in teaching a child to tie his or her shoe lace, identify such different individual tasks as: 1. inserting the foot in to a shoe, 2. pulling the lace ends together, 3. making a bow, and 4. making the final knot) ● Use backward chaining to teach the skills in the reverse order and then practice the skill in an integrated manner: 146

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Changing Criterion, Research Design.

A singlesubject research design to evaluate treatment effects; effectiveness of a treatment is demonstrated by effecting changes in target behaviors that approximate a changing criterion of performance; in successive stages of treatment, the behavior is held to a lower or higher criterion.

Changing Criterion, Treatment Procedure. A method of shaping desirable behaviors by using performance criteria that change every time the client meets a certain criterion; the criterion may change in either direction (lower or higher) depending on the target behavior; in reducing the speech rate of clients with certain communicative disorders, the criteria are progressively lower; in shaping longer utterances, the criteria are progressively higher.

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Chewing Method. A voice therapy technique used to reduce vocal hyperfunction; helps reduce excessive tension and muscular effort associated with voice production; for procedures, see Specific Normal Voice Facilitating Techniques under Voice Disorders.

Child-Centered Approach. A child language intervention approach that assigns a more active role to the child; play-oriented and indirect treatment method; clinician takes the child’s lead in targeting language structures for intervention; see Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Childhood Aphasia (Congenital Aphasia). A controversial and somewhat dated term used to describe certain children’s language disorders that could not be explained on the basis of other known variables including neurological problems, hearing impairment, mental retardation, environmental deficit, and so forth; a diagnosis made on negative evidence; questioned or rejected by many clinicians.

Choreiform Movements. Jerky, irregular, involuntary, and rapid movements; caused by damage to the caudate and the putamen; major symptom of Huntington’s Disease.

Circumlocutions. Talking around a theme or failing to use specific terms.

Cleft. An opening in a structure that is normally closed. Cleft Lip. Opening in the upper lip; may be on one (unilateral) or both (bilateral) sides of the lip; due to failure in embryonic growth processes.

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Cleft Lip and Palate: Treatment for Articulation and Phonological Disorders General Principles ● A thorough assessment of articulation skills and velopharyngeal function is necessary before starting treatment ● Treatment is effective if the child has at least a marginal velopharyngeal competence ● Children with significant velopharyngeal incompetence need surgery, prosthetic assistance, or both ● Treatment should be offered as early as possible ● Treatment should emphasize production and not auditory discrimination ● Trial therapy may be needed to determine prognosis ● Behavioral principles and procedures are effective in teaching correct articulation ● Phonological approach may be appropriate in certain children with repaired cleft 150

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nological Disorders in children without clefts are appropriate in teaching sound production to children with repaired clefts Treatment Procedures: Articulation and Phonological Disorders Use the procedures of treating Articulation and Phonological Disorders; consider the following suggestions, some of which are unique to children with repaired clefts. ● Educate parents about the speech mechanism ● Withhold reinforcement for undesirable compensatory behaviors, the need for which has been eliminated by medical treatment ● Teach the more visible sounds before the less visible except for the linguadentals ● Teach stops and fricatives before other class of sounds ● Avoid or postpone training on /k/ and /g/ if the velopharyngeal functioning is inadequate ● Teach fricatives, affricates, or both if they are stimulable or after stops are mastered ● Teach linguapalatal sounds, lingua-alveolars, and linguadentals in that order ● Progress from syllables to words, phrases, and sentences ● Give auditory and visual cues; model frequently ● Provide systematic practice and reinforce correct productions ● Introduce compensatory articulatory positioning where appropriate ● Teach the client to direct the breath stream orally; let the child feel the airstream on hand or see the movement of a piece of tissue ● Teach the child to avoid posterior articulatory placements 151

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ents to reinforce correct articulation at home Bzoch, K. R. (1997). Communication disorders related to cleft lip and palate (4th ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. McWilliams, B. J., Morris, H. L., & Shelton, R. L. (1990). Cleft palate speech (2nd ed.). Philadelphia: B. C. Decker. Peterson-Falzone, S. J., Hardin-Jones, M. A., & Kernell, M. P. (Eds.). (2001). Cleft palate speech. St. Louis, MO: Mosby. Shprintzen, R. J., & Bardach, J. (1995). Cleft palate speech management. St. Louis, MO: Mosby.

Cleft Lip and Palate: Treatment of Language Disorders General Principles ● Language stimulation by parents may be all that is needed in some cases ● Formal language treatment may be necessary in some cases ● Need to work with the parents from early infancy to establish a long-term rapport ● Counseling parents about language development is essential ● The basic language treatment procedures are not much different from those used with Language Disorders in Children without clefts Treatment Procedures: Language Disorders Use the procedures of treating Language Disorders in Children without clefts; consider the following suggestions, some of which are unique to children with clefts. ● Teach patients to stimulate language at home ● Ask parents to encourage free verbal expression in their child 152

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Cleft Lip and Palate: Treatment of Phonatory Disorders General Principles ● Phonatory problems may be due to compensatory behaviors or may be independent of velopharyngeal insufficiency ● Use techniques described under Voice Disorders if the problems are independent of velopharyngeal insufficiency (and due to vocal abuse) ● Consider phonatory treatment as diagnostic; discontinue if there is no improvement in phonatory problems or other speech symptoms worsen ● Do not try to eliminate nasal escape and hypernasality ● Do not offer phonatory treatment for children with a clear diagnosis of velopharyngeal incompetence ● Follow treated children because some improve, some deteriorate, and some stay the same Treatment Procedures for Hyperfunctional Voice ● Describe how voice is produced to the child and the parents 153

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● Counsel the family about good vocal behaviors (e.g.,

talking less in noisy environments, practicing soft speech, good conversational turn taking, clapping instead of shouting or yelling) ● Use auditory discrimination training by helping the child to discriminate his or her voice from that of other children without vocal nodules or other vocal pathology ● Use such biofeedback instruments as the Visi-Pitch in training ● Train healthy voice production by teaching the child to • reduce vocal loudness • eliminate hard glottal attacks • initiate words that start with vowels • use easy, gentle onset of phonation • self-monitor voice McWilliams, B. J., Morris, H. L., & Shelton, R. L. (1990). Cleft palate speech (2nd. ed.). Philadelphia: B. C. Decker.

Cleft Lip and Palate: Treatment for Resonance Disorders General Principles ● Do not treat Hypernasality if it is a result of velopharyngeal incompetence ● Treat hypernasality only if the child is capable of achieving velopharyngeal closure ● See if surgery reduces or eliminates hypernasality; improvement may continue for up to a year following surgery Treatment Procedures: Resonance Disorders ● Use techniques described under Voice Disorders to reduce hypernasality including increased loudness, discrimination training to distinguish oral and nasal resonance, lowered pitch, encouraging increased oral opening ● Use respiratory training to improve loudness ● Attempt articulation with the nares occluded 154

Client-Specific Strategy ● Decrease intra-oral breath pressure on stop consonants

and fricatives, while simultaneously using loose articulatory contacts ● Use such biofeedback instruments as Tonar II to reduce hypernasality ● Use the whistle-blowing technique of R. J. Shprintzen and his associates to promote velopharyngeal closure during speech • teach whistling and blowing at the same time • reinforce when nasal airflow is absent • continue until there is no nasal escape during whistling or blowing • eliminate whistling or blowing, and introduce phonation • continue until no nasal escape is evident • introduce vowels /i/ or /u/ while blowing or whistling • continue until there is no longer nasal escape • eliminate blowing or whistling, and produce only the vowels • form monosyllables by using non-nasal consonants with vowels • move to words, sentences, and conversations • teach self-monitoring skills Boone, D. R., & McFarlane, S. C. (1988). The voice and voice therapy (4th ed). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. McWilliams, B. J., Morris, H. L., & Shelton, R. L. (1990). Cleft palate speech (2nd. ed.). Philadelphia: B. C. Decker. Peterson-Falzone, S. J., Hardin-Jones, M. A., & Kernell, M. P. (Eds.). (2001). Cleft palate speech. St. Louis, MO: Mosby. Wilson, D. K. (1972). Voice problems in children. Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins.

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Closed-Head Injury. The same as Nonpenetrating Head Injury; injury to the brain when the meninges are intact although the skull may or may not be fractured.

Cloze Procedure.

Modeling parts of an utterance and pausing for the child to produce words and phrases to complete the utterance; the same as Partial Modeling and Completion. ● Model only the initial portion of a target response (e.g., say ‘‘The boy is . . .’’ and wait for the response) ● Let the child complete the partial model (e.g., the child says ‘‘walking’’) ● Reinforce the child’s response

Cluttering. A speech-language disorder characterized by rapid speech rate, irregular speech rate, or both; a fluency disorder related to, but different from, stuttering; may coexist with stuttering; also defined as a fluency disorder with rapid rate, indistinct articulation, and impaired language formulation possibly suggesting poor organization of thought with reduced or absent awareness or concern about the problems; certain elements of treatment are common to stuttering and cluttering. ● Make a thorough assessment of the overall symptoms; determine the extent of fluency, articulation, and language problems; consult the cited sources and PGASLP ● Teach a slower rate of speech 156

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back (both described under Stuttering; Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Techniques or Programs) if necessary to slow the rate and induce prolongation Use Shadowing (described under Stuttering; Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Techniques or Programs) Teach slow and distinct articulation Teach pausing between clauses and sentences Ask the client to increase the rate beyond baseline and then slow down to encourage discrimination Correct any phoneme-specific misarticulations through methods of treating Articulation and Phonological Disorders Teach the client to produce syllables with deliberate stress, especially the final and unstressed syllables of words Tape-record the client’s cluttered speech and play it back to increase awareness Give prompt, contingent feedback on cluttered speech to increase awareness Heighten clutterers’ awareness of their listeners’ difficulty in understanding them; sensitize the clients to the listeners’ facial expressions and gestures that signal difficulty in understanding Treat word finding difficulties by having the client name rapidly and learn words in semantically varied categories Teach conversational turn taking, organized expressions, and coherent talking Teach Self-Control (Self-Monitoring) Skills Implement a maintenance program Follow up and give booster treatment

Myers, F. L., & St. Louis, K. O. (1992). Cluttering: A clinical perspective. Kibworth, England: Far Communications.

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clutter; may use Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) to induce rate reduction. ● Establish a baserate of speech rate measured either in syllables or words per minute ● Instruct the client in rate reduction and describe its desirable effects ● Reassure the client that a more acceptable rate is the final target of treatment ● Model a slow rate of speech for the client ● Model pausing at appropriate junctures ● Experiment with slower rates and increased frequency or duration of pauses that result in reduced or eliminated dysfluencies and improved intelligibility ● Model the effective rate selected for the client ● Ask the client to imitate the reduced rate ● Use delayed auditory feedback if instructions and modeling are not effective ● Start with words and phrases and move on to controlled and spontaneous sentences ● Add other targets (distinct articulation, increased stress, prolonged vowels) ● Fade excessively slow rate while maintaining distinct articulation and decreased dysfluencies ● Teach self-monitoring skills ● Follow up and arrange for booster treatment Collaborative Model. A service delivery model used in public schools; the speech-language pathologist works with the classroom teacher in identifying clinical activities that promote academic learning in a child with communication disorders; the clinician works in the classroom along with the teacher. Collagen Injection. A medical treatment procedure for clients with paralyzed vocal folds; injected into the middle third of the fold, collagen increases the bulk and the chances of adduction.

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Communication Communication. Exchange of information through various verbal or nonverbal actions; more or less organized; target of treatment in clients with communicative disorders; its various forms include: ● Aided communication: Communication achieved through the assistance of such external devices as paper and pencil, communication boards, and computers. ● Alternative communication: Communication achieved by nonoral means; all modes others than the verbal. ● Augmentative communication: Oral or verbal communication that is in some way limited but enhanced or expanded by aided or unaided alternative communication means including speech synthesizers, communication boards, and paper and pencil. ● Manual communication: Communication achieved by signs, gestures, and symbols and without oral speech. ● Nonverbal communication: Communication achieved without oral speech; may be in the form of signs, gestures, facial expressions, and symbols. ● Simultaneous communication: Communication achieved through multiple means including oral speech, signs, symbols, and gestures. ● Total communication: Communication achieved through the simultaneous use of verbal expressions as well as a sign language (e.g., American Sign Language). ● Unaided communication: Communication achieved without the help of external means; normal oral communication that is accompanied by typical gestures and expressions. ● Verbal communication: Communication achieved through spoken words and language; may be accompanied by culturally appropriate normal gestures and facial expression Communication Boards. An augmentative/alternative communication system; boards on which letters, words, phrases, sentences, symbols, or pictures are pasted for the

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Compensatory Strategies.

Means of achieving communication in unusual or atypical means; achieving communication in spite of organic, intellectual, or other kinds of deficiency that may be expected to affect communication; in articulation, methods of producing speech sounds in atypical means because of neuroanatomic deficiencies; in adult communication rehabilitation (such as in patients with dementia), communication through strategies that help adapt to deficiencies.

Completion. The same as Cloze Procedure and Partial Modeling.

Concurrent Stimulus-Response Generalization. Production of new and unreinforced responses in relation to new stimuli; the most complex form of generalized production.

Conditioned Generalized Reinforcers. Tokens, money, and other reinforcers that are effective in a wide range of conditions; Secondary Reinforcers that have a generalized effect; use them to: ● Promote generalized productions of target behaviors ● Enhance the effectiveness of the reinforces used in treatment

Conditioned Reinforcers. Events that reinforce behaviors because of past learning experiences (e.g., verbal praise or tokens); the same as Secondary Reinforcers; see Unconditioned Reinforcers.

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Conditioned Stimulus Conditioned Stimulus. A stimulus that elicits or evokes a response only because of a learning history; stimuli clinicians use in treatment sessions; see Unconditioned Stimulus.

Conditioning and Learning. A behavioral method of selecting and strengthening behaviors in individuals; technique of teaching new behaviors; changing the probability of existing behaviors by arranging different consequences for behaviors: ● Avoidance conditioning: Learning or teaching behaviors that help avoid aversive conditions, stimuli, and persons; once learned, hard to extinguish; often found in persons who stutter; modifying such avoidance behaviors as not talking on the phone is a treatment target. ● Classical conditioning: Also known as Pavlovian conditioning, classical conditioning involves systematic pairing of two stimuli—one, an unconditioned stimulus(UCS) and the other a conditioned stimulus (CS) so that the CS begins to elicit the response typically given to the UCS. ● Operant conditioning: Creating, shaping, selecting, strengthening, or weakening behaviors of an individual by arranging different consequences for those behaviors; the most researched and effective techniques known to teach new skills, including communicative skills.

Conductive Hearing Loss. Inefficient conductance of sound to the middle or inner ear due to the abnormalities of the external auditory canal, the ear drum, or the ossicular chain of the middle ear.

Conduction Aphasia.

A type of fluent aphasia characterized by markedly impaired repetition skills; caused by lesions in the supramarginal gyrus, the superior temporal lobe, and regions between Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas. See Aphasia.

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this?’’; typically impaired in patients with aphasia and hence a treatment target for clients with Aphasia.

Congenital Disorder.

Any clinical condition a person is born with; a condition noticed at the time of or soon after birth; may or may not be inherited.

Congenital Aphasia.

Aphasia noticed early in childhood; a disorder that affects the acquisition of language as against aphasia in adults that disrupts acquired language. The same as Childhood Aphasia.

Congenital Palatopharyngeal Incompetence.

An inadequate velopharyngeal mechanism that cannot close the velopharyngeal port for the production of nonnasal speech sounds; not due to clefts; the person is presumably born with a deficient velopharyngeal mechanism; hard palate may be too short or the nasopharynx may be too deep; speech is hypernasal; depending on the degree of incompetence, resonance (voice) therapy may be ineffective without surgical or prosthetic help.

Consequences. Events that follow a response and thus increase or decrease the future probability of those responses; in treatment, clinician’s differential response to client’s correct, incorrect, and no response; technically known as reinforcers (both positive and negative) that typically increase behaviors and punishers (corrective feedback) that decrease them.

Constituent Definitions. Dictionary definitions of terms with no reference to how what is defined is measured (e.g., The goal of treatment is to reduce stuttering.) contrasted with Operational Definitions (e.g., The goal of treatment is to reduce specified dysfluencies to below 3% of the words spoken.).

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Contact Ulcers (Contact Granuloma). Benign lesions on the posterior third of the glottal margin; possibly due to trauma, reflux, or vocally abusive behaviors; voice symptoms include low pitch, effortful phonation, and vocal fatigue. ● Do not recommend complete vocal rest or surgical treatment ● Do not recommend forced whispering ● Ask the patient to talk less ● Reduce Vocally Abusive Behaviors ● Teach the client to speak with less effort and force ● Teach relaxed phonation and speaking ● Teach the client to speak more softly ● Eliminate glottal attacks

Contingency. An interdependent relation between events or factors; in behavioral analysis and treatment, a dependent relation between antecedents, responses, and the clinician’s feedback to the client; the most important element in behavioral treatment; includes Environmental Contingency and Genetic/Neurophysiological Contingency.

Contingent Consequences. Consequences that closely follow behaviors and thus change their frequency; in treatment, the feedback clinicians give their clients immediately after the clients produce correct or incorrect responses; consequences that depend on the nature of responses (correct or incorrect); reinforcers and punishers that depend on the responses.

Contingent Queries. Questions the clinician asks immediately following an unclear statement from the client in language therapy; lead to more specific or elaborate responses from the client. ● Ask a question immediately following an unclear response from the child (e.g., the child says ‘‘kick ball’’; you ask, 163

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‘‘Who is kicking the ball?’’); such contingent queries may lead to a more clear and perhaps elaborate response from the child.

Continuous Airflow. A stuttering treatment target; maintaining uninterrupted airflow throughout an utterance; for procedures see Stuttering, Treatment; Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Continuous Reinforcement. A schedule in which every occurrence of a response is reinforced; effective in establishing new skills; inefficient in maintaining already established skills; therefore: ● Use this schedule only in initial stage of treatment ● Gradually shift from continuous to Intermittent Reinforcement

Contrast Effect. Increase in the frequency of an undesirable response that has been kept under check by an aversive stimulus when the aversive stimulus is absent.

Contrastive Stress Drills. A treatment method used to promote both articulatory proficiency and natural prosody, especially the stress and rhythm aspects of spoken language; used in treating Apraxia of Speech (AOS) in Adults; different phrases and sentences are used to teach placing stress on different words; stressed words or terms may be used to promote articulatory proficiency or simply to vary prosodic features of speech.

In Teaching Articulatory Proficiency

● Construct phrases and sentences preferably with a single

target sound in them (e.g., ‘‘My name is Peter’’ for /p/; ‘‘Sam did it’’ for /s/) ● Ask a series of questions such that the client will respond with the target phrase placing extra stress on the target word (e.g., ‘‘Is your name Tom?’’; client will respond ‘‘No, my name is Peter’’; the client is likely to stress the word

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In Teaching Prosodic Features

● Create a series of phrases and sentences (e.g., ‘‘Tom does

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● Ask questions that will force stress on different words in

target phrases and sentences (e.g., ‘‘Does Tom read romance novels?’’ may evoke ‘‘No, Tom reads mystery novels.’’ ‘‘Does Tom never read mystery novels?’’ may evoke ‘‘Tom reads them all the time.’’) ● Reinforce the client for varying stress on different words Control Group. The group that does not receive treatment and hence shows no change in the target disorder or disease; part of the Group Design Strategy that helps evaluate treatment effects and efficacy. ● Select subjects randomly (Random Selection) ● Assign subjects into control and experimental groups randomly ● Alternatively, match subjects in the experimental and control groups (see Matching) ● Assess the control group ● Withhold treatment to the control group while the experimental group receives treatment. ● Demonstrate that the control group did not change (improve) while the experimental group did Controlled Evidence. Data that show that a particular treatment, not some other factor, was responsible for the positive changes in a client’s behavior; evidence gathered through controlled experimentation with either group or single-subject design strategy; data that show that treatment is significantly better than no treatment; evidence that supports the use of a treatment technique; one of several Treatment Selection Criteria.

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Conversational Probes.

Methods to assess generalized production of clinically established behaviors in conversational speech and language. ● Take a naturalistic conversational speech sample ● Direct it minimally to adequately sample the production of speech or language behaviors under probe ● Count the number of opportunities for producing the skill under probe ● Calculate the percent correct production of probed behaviors ● Give additional training at the conversational level if the adopted probe criterion is not met (e.g., 90% accuracy) ● Dismiss the client only after the criterion is met

Conversational Turn Taking. A pragmatic language skill and treatment target; often deficient in a client with language disorders; involves appropriate exchange of speaker and listener roles during conversation; for procedures, see Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Corrective Feedback.

Response-contingent feedback from the clinician that reduces the frequency of undesirable responses of clients; frequently used in treatment. ● Give corrective feedback as soon as you detect an incorrect response ● Give Verbal Corrective Feedback (‘‘No.’’ or ‘‘That is not correct.’’) for all incorrect responses ● Give Nonverbal Corrective Feedback when appropriate (gestures that show disapproval of a response) ● Give Mechanical Corrective Feedback or Biofeedback whenever possible 166

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● Replace ineffective forms of corrective feedback with

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● Minimize the use of corrective feedback by giving more

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Craniocerebral Trauma. The same as Traumatic Brain Injury.

Criteria for Making Clinical Decisions. Rules to make various clinical judgments; includes such treatmentrelated rules as when to model, when to stop modeling, and when a behavior is considered trained. ● Model most target behaviors for most clients, especially in the initial stages ● Discontinue modeling when the client gives five consecutively correct, imitated responses ● Reinstate modeling if errors persist ● Consider an exemplar of a target behavior trained when the client gives 10 consecutively correct responses ● Consider a behavior tentatively trained when the client gives 90% correct responses on untrained exemplars on an intermixed probe ● Consider a behavior trained when the client gives 90% or better correct responses in conversational speech produced in extraclinical situations

Cued Speech. A system of nonverbal communication that is used as a supplement to speech reading; consists of eight hand shapes that represent categories of consonants and four positions about the face that represent categories of vowels; these hand shapes and positions suggest speech sounds in running speech; known to promote better reading skills in children who are deaf.

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Cysts. Acquired or congenital, fluid-filled lesions of the larynx caused by trauma; can occur contralaterally to a unilateral Vocal Nodule; usually unilateral; treatment is surgery.

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Deblocking. A technique used in treating clients with aphasia; uses an intact response to one kind of stimulus to deblock a deficient or absent response to another kind of stimulus (e.g., visual stimuli to which the client responds appropriately may be used in promoting a deficient or nonexistent response to auditory stimuli; for the procedure, see Aphasia, Treatment; Treatment of Naming: Targets and Techniques.

Dedicated Systems of Augmentative Communication. Computers designed and built exclusively for augmentative communication; see Augmentative Communication.

Deglutition. Swallowing; see Dysphagia for normal and abnormal swallow.

Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF). A procedure in which a speaker’s speech is fed back to his or her ears through headphones after a delay; most speakers slow their speech down under DAF; technique is used in reducing the speech rate in persons who stutter or clutter and those who have dysarthria; see Cluttering; Dysarthria; Stuttering; Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Techniques or Programs. ● Select one of the several DAF machines available on the market ● Experiment with different durations of delay that induce speech that is free from stuttering or cluttering or speech rate that improves intelligibility in dysarthric speakers ● Train and stabilize the target speech skills with the selected delay ● Fade DAF and shape the normal rate and prosody

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Deletion Processes Deletion Processes. A group of phonological processes in which one or more consonants or a syllable in a word is deleted or omitted; in phonological treatment, the target is to eliminate such processes; major deletion processes include: ● Cluster reduction: one or more consonants are deleted in a cluster of consonants (e.g., bu for blue) ● Initial consonant deletion: omission of an initial consonant of a syllable (e.g., ink for sink) ● Final consonant deletion: omission of a final consonant (e.g., goo for good) ● Unstressed syllable deletion: omission of a syllable (e.g., medo for tomato, nana for banana)

Demands and Capacities Model (DCM). A theory of stuttering which states that when the environmental demands made on a child to produce and sustain fluency exceeds the child’s capacity to do so, stuttering results; treatment involves reducing the demands and gradually increasing the child’s fluency skills; for procedures see Stuttering, Treatment; Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Techniques or Programs; Stuttering Prevention: A Clinical Method.

Dementia.

An acquired neurological Syndrome associated in most cases with persistent or progressive deterioration in intellectual and communicative functions and general behavior; sustained over a period of months or years; examples include dementia due to Alzheimer’s Disease, Huntington’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, or vascular disease; dementia is static in a few cases and reversible in 10 to 20% of the cases; in most cases, treatment is concerned with behavioral and clinical management because the disease is progressive and the effects irreversible; both the client and his or her family need treatment.

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them emotional, financial, and professional support are important. ● Educate the family members about: • the causes, symptoms, and course of dementia • the specific type of dementia and its neurological basis • general medical and behavioral management procedures ● Give family members a realistic picture of what is ahead; discuss with them the need to cope with a difficult, prolonged, and expensive problem, the nature or even existence of which may not be understood by the patient himself or herself, especially in later stages ● Tell them that that as time passes, they are most likely to be concerned with and troubled by the patient’s: • physical violence • memory deficits • catastrophic reactions • incontinence • delusions and hallucinations • making accusations and suspiciousness • uncooperative at bathing and at mealtime • communication problems • demanding, critical behaviors • unsafe driving, cooking • hiding things • daytime wandering and night walking ● Let them understand that patients with dementia, especially in the beginning states, are frustrated, worried, anxious, and angry ● Let them understand that in due course, the patient is likely to be depressed and may withdraw from the family ● Prepare the family members for: • potential emotional outbursts and angry exchanges over trivial matters 172

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Clinical Management of Patients With Dementia. Design a program to help the person with dementia sustain skills and behaviors to the extent possible; cope with progressive deterioration in skills and behaviors; teach compensatory strategies. ● Establish a simple routine for the patient and the family ● Manage the patient’s memory problems; design such stimulus control procedures as reminders, prompters, pictures, lists, and other devices to manage the memory problems; but include systematic training to use them; note that differential reinforcement is important to make stimulus manipulations work for the patients; see also Memory Impairments: • note that external cues are more effective than internal cues (self-monitored) in improving memory skills, although teaching self-monitoring skills is recommended • note that any kind of prompt that reminds the patient of an activity or encourages a patient to do something is better than no prompts 174

Dementia: Clinical Management • give verbal prompts that remind patients of scheduled activities (e.g., a social gathering, a game, a party), which may be more effective than other kinds of reminders (e.g., a bright poster printed in large letters) • note that just making materials and opportunities for activities may not be sufficient to prompt actions and activities; patients need verbal prompts and reinforcement for following through • reinforce institutionalized patients for paying attention to reminders, signs, posters, announcements, and scheduled activities as these may not be effective without such reinforcement • train patients by reinforcing them to use, and prompt them to consult, a diary that they keep about appointments and schedules of events because it is not sufficient to have them simply write them down on a piece of paper • have caregivers in an institution wear name tags printed in larger letters, train the caregivers to draw attention to their name tags, and have patients read them or caregivers read them aloud; train the caregivers to reinforce the patients for saying the name or reading it aloud • have patients keep a list of activities that are more immediate (i.e., today’s activities as against this month’s activity), and train caregivers to prompt the patient to consult the list at appropriate times • teach the client to use portable alarms that remind him or her of appointments and scheduled activities; monitor the use of the devices and reinforce the patient for maintaining this skill • give written instructions on daily living chores (closing the windows, locking the doors, turning the stove off); teach the client to follow the instructions and reinforce him or her for doing so 175

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Dementia: Clinical Management • place a large calendar in the patient’s bedroom and cross off the current date every night; draw the patient’s attention to this activity and tell the patient what you are doing (remember, that you are not doing it for your benefit) • make the patient wear a digital calendar watch with large display of AM and PM, date and day; frequently draw attention to it; have the client use it in realistic situations (e.g., instructing the patient to look at the watch and saying that it is now 12 noon and time to have lunch) • provide maps of frequently visited places (e.g., homes of relatives or friends, doctor’s office, shops, favorite restaurants); before visiting the places, prompt the patient to consult the maps ● In treating communication disorders in early stages of dementia, provide cues to evoke words and then teach self-cueing techniques; see Aphasia for details and additional examples: • give phonemic cues for words (e.g., the clinician says ‘‘The word starts with an s’’ to evoke spoon) • give such semantic cues as a generic class (e.g., the clinician says ‘‘woman’’ to evoke the word ‘‘wife’’); a synonym (e.g., the clinician says ‘‘dwelling’’ to evoke ‘‘house’’); an antonym (e.g., the clinician says ‘‘good’’ to evoke ‘‘bad’’); a category name (e.g., the clinician says ‘‘it is a fruit’’ to evoke ‘‘apple’’); or an associated word (e.g., the clinician says ‘‘cup’’ to evoke ‘‘plate’’) • train the patient to use description as cues in which he or she describes an object before naming it • teach self-cueing by having the client produce the successful cues to generate the intended word • note that contingent consequences (positive reinforcement and corrective feedback) are known to be effective in modifying communicative behaviors in patients with dementia 177

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Dementia: Caregiver Strategies • sustain reading skills with routine materials (e.g., TV listings, newspapers, labels on packaged foods, restaurant menus) • get the patient involved in social activities and family group activities as long as possible • provide plenty of verbal reinforcement for the patient’s effort to sustain skills and social behaviors

Management Strategies for Patient’s Caregivers, Including Family Members. Family members and other caregivers need help in managing persons with dementia; ask all those who care for and regularly interact with the client to: ● Be observant about changes in the patient’s behavior that might signal a significant change in health status ● Take steps to sustain the patient’s physical health by making sure that the patient: • regularly takes the prescribed medications • eats properly • exercises regularly ● Be consistent ● Reduce distractions ● Design and maintain a consistent routine for the patient ● Reassign household chores the patient cannot perform anymore, but do not expropriate the patient’s responsibilities too soon ● Design and maintain a constant and simplified environment ● Make environmental modifications that support communication and help prevent social isolation and more rapid deterioration in behavior, including communication: • create and maintain communication opportunities for the patient • incorporate as much relevant speech as possible with daily routines • do not restrict expression and communication with the fear that the patient may be irrelevant 179

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Demonstration. A stimulus procedure used in treatment; usually preceded by instructions on how to produce a target response. ● Describe the target behavior the client is expected to produce

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Denasality (Hyponasality). Lack of nasal resonance on nasal sounds; a disorder of resonance associated with various voice disorders and cleft palate; see treatment procedures under Voice Disorders and Cleft Palate.

Dependent Variables. Effects of causes studied by scientists; target behaviors taught to clients and pupils; contrasted with Independent Variables.

Deteriorating Baselines. Baselines of a progressively worsening problem; desirable behaviors (e.g., fluency) that are lower each time they are measured; require immediate treatment; an exception to the rule that in a treatment evaluation study, intervention should be started only after baselines are stable. ● Measure baselines repeatedly ● If the desirable behavior shows a consistent worsening (or the undesirable behavior shows a consistent increase) across baseline sessions, initiate treatment immediately

Determinism. A philosophical position that nothing happens without a cause; basis of modern science, whose goal is to explain events by finding their causes.

Developmental Apraxia of Speech (DAS). A speech disorder in children that shares some common characteristics with Apraxia of Speech (AOS) in Adults, but without documented neuropathology; primarily an articulatory (phonologic) disorder characterized by sensorimotor problems in positioning and sequentially moving muscles for the volitional production of speech; associated with prosodic problems; not caused by muscle weakness or neuromuscular 186

Diagnosis slowness; presumed to be a disorder of motor programming for speech; controversial because of the absence of neuropathology; little or no controlled treatment efficacy data; most treatment programs are only suggestive.

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Hall, P. K., Jordan, L. S., & Robin, D. A. (1993). Developmental apraxia of speech: Theory and clinical practice. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Diagnosis. A clinical activity designed to find causes of diseases or disorders, especially in medicine; in communicative disorders, diagnosis often is aimed at describing and assessing the degree of severity of disorders; requires precise and reliable measurement of communicative behaviors; often means the same as Assessment; see the cited sources and PGASLP for details on assessing various disorders of communication. 187

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Shipley, K. G., & McAfee, J. G. (1998). Assessment in speech-language pathology: A resource manual (2nd ed.). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Tomblin, J. B., Morris, H. L., & Spriestersbach, D. C. (2000). Diagnosis in speech-language pathology (2nd ed.). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.

Dialect. A spoken form of a language with its own phonologic, semantic, grammatic, and pragmatic properties and rules; any variation of a language; a variation may be considered standard although all variations are acceptable forms of communication; in a bilingual speaker, may be influenced by the primary language; not a basis to diagnose a disorder; see Ethnocultural Variables in Treatment.

Differential Reinforcement. (a) The method of establishing discriminated responding by reinforcing a response in the presence of one stimulus and not reinforcing the same response in the presence of another stimulus; (b) an indirect method of response reduction by increasing another, desirable behavior; specific techniques include Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behaviors (DRA), Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behaviors (DRI), Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates of Behaviors (DRL), and Differential Reinforcement of Other Behaviors (DRO).

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DRI Reduction in which an undesirable behavior is reduced by reinforcing a specified desirable behavior that serves the same function as the one to be reduced; also known as Functional Equivalence Training. ● Find out what function (purpose) the undesirable behavior to be reduced seems to serve (e.g., fussing in treatment sessions may mean that the child finds the task too difficult and cannot request help) ● Select a behavior that is a desirable alternative to the behavior to be reduced (e.g., the response ‘‘help me,’’ if the child could make it, may serve the same function as fussing) ● Reinforce the production of the alternative, desirable response (e.g., teach the child to say ‘‘help me’’ instead of fussing)

Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behaviors (DRI). One of the Indirect Methods of Response Reduction in which an undesirable behavior is reduced by reinforcing a behavior that is incompatible with the behavior targeted for reduction. ● Specify the behavior to be reduced (e.g., leaving the chair and walking in the therapy room) ● Specify a behavior that is incompatible (e.g., sitting quietly and looking at the stimulus items presented) ● Systematically reinforce the child (for sitting quietly and looking at the stimulus items) ● Suspend training on the target communicative skill for a while if necessary and until the sitting behavior is stabilized

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Differential Reinforcement of Other Behaviors (DRO). One of the Indirect Methods of Response Reduction in which an undesirable behavior is reduced by reinforcing any one of many unspecified behaviors; the behavior that will not receive reinforcement is clearly stated. ● Specify the undesirable behavior to be reduced (e.g., leaving the chair and walking around) ● Tell the client that he or she will not receive reinforcers for that behavior; also say that he or she will receive a reinforcer as long as the undesirable behavior is not exhibited ● Periodically reinforce the child for not exhibiting the undesirable behavior (perhaps for sitting quietly, reading, coloring, working on other assignments, but none specified as the response to be reinforced)

Digital Manipulation. Physical manipulation of the larynx during voice therapy; for the procedure, see Voice Disorders: Specific Normal Voice Facilitating Techniques.

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Double voice resulting from differential vibration of the two vocal folds or vibration of both the true and false vocal folds.

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Direct Methods of Response Reduction Direct Methods of Response Reduction. Procedures to reduce undesirable behaviors by directly placing a contingency on them; contrasted with Indirect Methods of Response Reduction. ● Specify the undesirable behavior to be reduced ● Place one of the following contingencies on it: • Corrective Feedback (e.g., say ‘‘No’’) • Time-Out (say ‘‘Stop,’’ turn your face away for 5 seconds and then reestablish eye contact and resume conversation) • Response-Cost (take back a token contingent on every incorrect response) • Extinction (ignore the response) • Imposition of Work (ask a child who disrupts your stimulus materials to organize them for you)

Direct Stuttering Reduction Strategies. Treatment techniques that reduce stuttering by placing behavioral contingencies directly on stuttering itself; includes time-out (pause-and-talk) and response cost; see Stuttering.

Direct Treatment for Swallowing Disorders. Treatment of swallowing disorders by feeding the patient small amounts of food or liquid; see Indirect Treatment for Swallowing Disorders.

Disability. A person’s inability to perform an action that is normally expected of that person; a term so defined in the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps.

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Modification of Resonance ● Discuss with medical staff the need, effects, and effectiveness of medical treatments including pharyngeal flap surgery, Teflon injection into the posterior pharyngeal wall, and palatal lift prosthesis to treat velopharyngeal incompetence ● Provide feedback on nasal airflow and hypernasality by using a mirror, nasal flow transducer, or a Nasendoscope ● Train the client to open the mouth wider to increase oral resonance and vocal intensity ● Use nasal obturator or nose clip; have the client speak in the supine position; be aware of temporary improvement. Modification of Articulation ● Discuss with medical staff the need, effects, and effectiveness of medical treatments including Neural Anastomosis, botulinum toxin (Botox) injection to orofacial or mandibular muscles to decrease abnormal movements, and pharmacological treatment in relation to communication training. ● Analyze the error patterns and their potential reasons before developing a treatment program ● Encourage the client to assume the best posture for good articulation ● Use bite block to improve jaw control and strength ● Use behavioral methods to treat articulation disorders with clients for whom articulatory modification is a main target • provide instructions and demonstrations • simplify the task, use shaping • model frequently • use phonetic placement techniques • reduce speech rate to improve intelligibility • ask the client to exaggerate the production of medial and final consonants • give immediate feedback

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Treatment of Dysarthria: Specific Types.

In planning treatment for a client with dysarthria, consider first the general guidelines and procedures described in the previous section along with those that follow for specific types. If a definitive diagnosis of a particular type is not made, carefully evaluate the communicative deficits and design a treatment program to remediate or modify targeted deficits. Ataxic Dysarthria. A type of motor speech disorder; its neuropathology is damage to the cerebellar system; characterized by slow, inaccurate movement and Hypotonia; all aspects of speech may be involved, but articulatory and prosodic problems dominate; specific symptoms include imprecise consonants, excess and equal linguistic stress, and irregular articulatory breakdowns; select appropriate treatment targets and procedures described under Dysarthria; in addition, consider the following that apply especially to ataxic dysarthria: ● Use behavioral methods of Shaping and Differential Reinforcement to improve control and coordination ● Do not concentrate on increasing muscle strength or reducing muscle tone ● Do not recommend prosthetic or surgical methods to improve phonation or resonance ● Modify respiratory problems associated with speech production: • teach the client to inhale more deeply and exhale in a slow and controlled manner to sustain speech 201

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• measure the duration of exhalation and reinforce progressively longer (more controlled) exhalation • teach the client to begin speaking soon after the start of exhalation to avoid wasting airflow; reinforce prompt phonation upon initiation of exhalation • teach the client to end an utterance well before running out of air; stop the client when signs of airflow dissipation are evident, and ask the client to breathe in again • teach the client to stop and inhale at natural junctures in a sentences (e.g., at the beginning of a grammatical clause) ● Modify prosodic problems that result mostly from irregular, slow, or even rapid rate of speech: • slow the rate of speech with the help of metronome beats • use finger or hand tapping to generate an even and appropriate rate of speech • provide such cues as pointing to a printed word to generate an appropriate and even oral reading rate • teach appropriate stress on words in sentences; use contrastive stress exercises • teach variations in pitch by using both printed sentences and conversational speech • control excess loudness variation by reinforcing normal variations ● Modify articulation problems that may persist even at slower rate of speech: • ask the client to produce words on a list while you judge their intelligibility while not looking at the list or the client’s face • give corrective feedback to encourage appropriate production of sounds in words you do not understand

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Flaccid Dysarthria. A type of motor speech disorder; its neuropathology is damage to the motor units of cranial or spinal nerves that supply speech muscles (lower motor neuron involvement); flaccidity (hypotonia) and weak muscle contractions are dominant neurological symptoms; speech problems caused mostly by muscle weakness and Hypotonia; constellation of speech disorders dependent on the specific nerve or nerves that are affected, but include breathy and harsh voice quality, hypernasality, nasal emission, imprecise production of consonants, audible inspiration, monopitch and loudness, and short phrases; select appropriate treatment targets and procedures described under

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Dysarthria: Flaccid may be beneficial in the case of flaccid dysarthria caused by damage to facial cranial nerve VII • increase overall muscle tone by asking the client to push down on the arms of a chair • increase tongue strength (perhaps the most controversial of all muscle strengthening exercises) by having the client (a) push the tongue out; (b) push the tongue to one or the other side; (c) lift the tongue tip; and (d) lift the back of the tongue as you apply resistance with a tongue blade to oppose the client’s effort in each case; may be beneficial in case of flaccid dysarthria caused by damage to hypoglossal cranial nerve XII ● Modify respiratory behaviors • use pushing/pulling exercises to increase respiratory support • make postural adjustments by asking the client to sit straight in the chair to increase breath support for speech • place a padded lap tray on the wheelchair, positioned next to the abdomen and ask the client to lean against it to increase breath support • teach the client to phonate at the beginning of exhalation to conserve air supply for speech • teach the client to inhale deeply and exhale in a controlled manner • increase breath group durations • increase the number of words per breath group ● Modify phonatory problems • increase loudness by modeling louder speech and reinforcing increase in client’s vocal loudness; use computer programs to give feedback on loudness • consider Teflon/collagen injections to improve vocal fold adduction • teach pushing and pulling while speaking to promote better approximation of vocal folds 205

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• ask the client to inhale deeply and hold the breath to promote firmer approximation of folds • ask the client with a unilateral vocal fold weakness or paralysis to turn head toward the affected side or manually push the larynx toward the unaffected side to help achieve better closure ● Modify resonance problems • note that hypernasality is the main resonance problem caused by damage to the pharyngeal branch of the vagus nerve; the soft palate may be weak or paralyzed • discuss the suitability of the Pharyngeal Flap Operation with a surgeon to improve velopharyngeal closure; note that the results have been inconsistent • discuss the suitability of Pharyngoplasty with a surgeon to improve velopharyngeal closure; note that the results have been inconsistent • recommend Palatal Lift Prosthesis, as this has been more effective in reducing hypernasality than pharyngeal flap or pharyngoplasty; note that this device is most effective with clients who (a) are severely hypernasal and have not improved with behavioral treatment; (b) do not have spastic velopharyngeal mechanism which may dislodge the device; (c) have teeth for anchoring the device; (d) have good articulation and phonation without which the device will not improve speech intelligibility; (e) do not have hyperactive gag reflex or swallowing problems; and (f) are motivated to wear it and care for it • use behavioral methods if hypernasality is mild; shape progressively less hypernasal voice by modeling and positive reinforcement and corrective feedback

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• reduce the rate of speech to improve speech intelligibility (and to some extent, hypernasality); use finger tapping to cue a slower rate by having the client produce a syllable or a word per a tap; give frequent instructions to slow down and reinforce the desired rate • teach better articulatory skills by reinforcing improved articulation of speech sounds; use a systematic approach of modeling and reinforcing correct articulation in words, phrases, sentences, and conversational speech • if preferred, use the Intelligibility Drills in which the client reads aloud a list of words when the clinician has turned his or her back; when the clinician does not understand a word , he or she will turn around to face the client, analyze the errors, give suggestions on correct productions, and reinforce correct productions • use Phonetic Placement Method to teach correct placement of articulators in producing target sounds • teach exaggerated production of consonants to improve speech intelligibility; ask the client to fully articulate consonants, especially in medial and final positions of words • use the Minimal Contrast Method to further improve articulation ● Modify prosodic problems • note that pitch, stress, and rhythm deviations contribute to an abnormal prosody in clients with flaccid dysarthria • ask the client to discriminate pitch changes as you model different levels of pitch • ask the client to prolong an /a/ with lower and higher pitch

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• have the client read printed sentences that indicate higher and lower pitch (arrows above and below words) • model different and appropriate pitch levels in phrases and sentences and have the client imitate them • monitor pitch in conversational speech and reinforce or give corrective feedback • use Contrastive Stress Drills • teach the client to chunk utterances into syntactic units; reinforce pauses (and inhale if necessary) at appropriate junctures in sentences Duffy, J. R. (1995). Motor speech disorders. St. Louis, MO: C. V. Mosby. Freed, D. (2000). Motor speech disorders: Diagnosis and treatment. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Halpern, H. (2000). Language and motor speech disorders in adults. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Johns, D. F. (Ed.). (1985). Clinical management of neurogenic communicative disorders. Boston: Little, Brown. Yorkston, K. M., Beukelman, D. R., Strand, E. A., & Bell, K. R. (1999). Management of motor speech disorders in children and adults. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Hyperkinetic Dysarthria. A type of motor speech disorder; its neuropathology is damage to basal ganglia (extrapyramidal system), resulting in rapid involuntary movements and variable muscle tone; may affect all aspects of speech, but a dominant symptom is prosodic disturbances; specific problems include prolonged intervals, variable rate, monopitch, loudness variations, inappropriate silences, imprecise consonants, and distorted vowels; most effective treatment is medical; various medications help control involuntary movements; for communication treatment, select appropriate treatment targets and procedures described under Dysarthria; in addition, consider the following that apply especially to hyperkinetic dysarthria: 208

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Duffy, J. R. (1995). Motor speech disorders. St. Louis, MO: C. V. Mosby. Freed, D. (2000). Motor speech disorders: Diagnosis and treatment. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Halpern, H. (2000). Language and motor speech disorders in adults. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

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Johns, D. F. (Ed.). (1985). Clinical management of neurogenic communicative disorders. Boston: Little, Brown. Yorkston, K. M., Beukelman, D. R., Strand, E. A., & Bell, K. R. (1999). Management of motor speech disorders in children and adults. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Hypokinetic Dysarthria. A type of motor speech disorder; its neuropathology is damage to basal ganglia (extrapyramidal system) resulting in slow movement, limited range of movement, and rigidity; parkinsonism is the most frequent cause of this type of dysarthria; may affect all aspects of speech, but especially voice, articulation, and prosody; specific problems include monopitch, monoloudness, reduced stress, imprecise consonants, variable rate of speech, increased speech rate in some cases and a slower rate in a few, short rushes of speech, inappropriate silences, and harsh and breathy voice. Select appropriate treatment targets and procedures described under Treatment of Dysarthria; in addition, consider the following that apply especially to hypokinetic dysarthria: ● Make a thorough assessment of dysarthria and the symptom complex that justifies the diagnosis of hypokinetic dysarthria; consult the cited sources and PGASLP ● Modify respiratory behaviors by teaching the client to: • inhale deeply before speaking • start speaking when inhalation begins • exhale slowly and in a controlled manner • stop talking well before exhausting the air supply • gradually increase the number of words spoken per breath ● Modify phonatory problems • use voice therapy techniques to increase vocal loudness and to decrease breathiness; use various biofeedback instruments (e.g., the VisiPitch) 210

Dysarthria: Hypokinetic • use pushing and pulling techniques to increase the movement range of laryngeal muscles (e.g., having the client push down on the arm of the chair while phonating) • use portable voice amplifiers to increase loudness ● Modify articulatory problems • use rate-control for clients who speak rapidly; use hand or finger tapping to cue-in production of syllables or words; use delayed auditory feedback to slow down the rate; use a metronome to have the client pace syllable or word productions; use a Pacing Board or an Alphabet Board if necessary • use Intelligibility Drills in which the client reads aloud printed words; judge the accuracy solely on the basis of phonatory cues and give corrective feedback or positive reinforcement • teach correct articulation by Phonetic Placement Method which shows correct placement of articulators for producing target sounds • improve speech intelligibility by asking the client to produce word-medial and final consonants with a certain degree of exaggeration • use the Minimal Contrast Method in which the client is taught to produce clearly pairs of words that differ by only one phoneme (e.g., pat-bat) ● Modify prosodic problems • note that a slower rate can improve the client’s prosody • teach proper intonation through printed sentences that show rising and falling pitch by arrows • use Contrastive Stress Drills • teach appropriate chunking of words according to syntactic units (e.g., pausing at the end of a grammatic clause and a sentence) Duffy, J. R. (1995). Motor speech disorders. St. Louis, MO: C. V. Mosby.

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Freed, D. (2000). Motor speech disorders: Diagnosis and treatment. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Halpern, H. (2000). Language and motor speech disorders in adults. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Johns, D. F. (Ed.). (1985). Clinical management of neurogenic communicative disorders. Boston: Little, Brown. Yorkston, K. M., Beukelman, D. R., Strand, E. A., & Bell, K. R. (1999). Management of motor speech disorders in children and adults. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Mixed Dysarthria. A type of motor speech disorder that is a combination of two or more pure dysarthrias; the neuropathology is varied depending on the types of dysarthrias that are mixed; frequent causes include multiple strokes or multiple neurological diseases; speech disorders are varied and dependent on the types of pure dysarthrias that are mixed; select appropriate treatment targets and procedures described under Treatment of Dysarthria; in addition, consider the following that apply especially to mixed dysarthrias: ● Make a thorough assessment of the client’s symptom complex of mixed dysarthria; consult the cited sources and the PGASLP ● Identify the dominant type, if any, and describe the major speech problems ● Select speech targets that when treated will immediately improve communication ● Treat those targets like you would in the case of pure dysarthrias ● Note that some clinicians recommend that problems of respiration, resonation, phonation, articulation, and prosody, if all present, be treated in that order ● Treat the most severe problem first if multiple problems exist in a single category (e.g., prosody); find out the client’s preference to determine which problems should be addressed first in treatment ● Recommend Augmentative Communication devices for clients who need them; note that clients whose 212

Dysarthria: Spastic mixed dysarthria is due to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ASL) are likely candidates for augmentative communication. Duffy, J. R. (1995). Motor speech disorders. St. Louis, MO: C. V. Mosby. Freed, D. (2000). Motor speech disorders: Diagnosis and treatment. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Halpern, H. (2000). Language and motor speech disorders in adults. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Johns, D. F. (Ed.). (1985). Clinical management of neurogenic communicative disorders. Boston: Little, Brown. Yorkston, K. M., Beukelman, D. R., Strand, E. A., & Bell, K. R. (1999). Management of motor speech disorders in children and adults. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Spastic Dysarthria. A type of motor speech disorder caused by bilateral damage to the upper motor neuron (direct and indirect motor pathways) resulting in weakness, spastic paralysis, limited range of movement, and slowness of movement; may affect all aspects of speech; major speech problems include imprecisely produced consonants, monopitch, monoloudness, reduced stress, hypernasality, slow rate, strainedstrangled-harsh voice, pitch breaks, and breathy voice; select appropriate treatment targets and procedures described under Treatment of Dysarthria; in addition, consider the following that apply especially to spastic dysarthria: ● Make a thorough assessment of dysarthria and the total symptom complex; make a differential diagnosis of spastic dysarthria; consult the cited sources and PGASLP ● Consult with the client’s physician about medically controlling pathological crying, which might interfere with treatment ● Consider behaviorally modifying crying in treatment sessions by reinforcing noncrying (alternative) behaviors 213

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because their effects on speech have not been documented ● Note that modification of respiratory behaviors is typically not a major concern in clients with spastic dysarthria; any apparent respiratory problems may be due largely to such phonatory problems as hyperadduction of vocal folds ● Modify phonatory problems • note that efforts to reduce hyperadduction of vocal folds have not been especially successful; nonetheless, these efforts may be made with caution • teach the client head and neck relaxation by instruction, modeling, and manual guidance; stand behind the client, take the client’s head between the two hands, and gently tilt it back, move it forward, and to the sides; ask the client to move the head in the same manner without manual guidance • teach easy onset of phonation to a client who has learned to relax the neck and head muscles; model soft glottal closure and ask the client to imitate it; begin with an exhaled sigh and add a prolonged /a/; shape this relaxed production of /a/ into words, phrases, sentences, and spontaneous speech • teach the yawn-sigh motion before starting a gentle phonation; ask the client to inhale through open mouth, exhale, and begin phonation; shape the phonated speech into words, phrases, sentences, and spontaneous speech ● Modify resonance problems • increase vocal loudness to control the extent of hypernasality, as louder speech tends to be perceived less nasal

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• teach the client to vary intonation in sentences; use printed sentences that indicate rising or falling intonation by arrows; model if necessary and fade modeling as the client becomes more successful in imitating suggested patterns of intonation; move on to conversational speech in which varied intonation is reinforced • use Contrastive Stress Drills to place stress on different words in questions and answers; model stress on specific words in questions and sentences and ask the client to imitate; fade modeling; teach appropriate stress patterns in conversational speech • teach the client to chunk utterances into syntactic units by modeling and reinforcing pauses at appropriate junctures in speech (e.g., at the end of grammatic clauses and sentences); ask the client to inhale at such junctures Duffy, J. R. (1995). Motor speech disorders. St. Louis, MO: C. V. Mosby. Freed, D. (2000). Motor speech disorders: Diagnosis and treatment. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Halpern, H. (2000). Language and motor speech disorders in adults. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Johns, D. F. (Ed.). (1985). Clinical management of neurogenic communicative disorders. Boston: Little, Brown. Yorkston, K. M., Beukelman, D. R., Strand, E. A., & Bell, K. R. (1999). Management of motor speech disorders in children and adults. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

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Dysarthria: UNUMN erally slow rate of speech with increased rate in segments; mild hypernasality; excess and equal stress; select appropriate treatment targets and procedures described under Treatment of Dysarthria; in addition, consider the following that apply especially to unilateral upper motor neuron dysarthria: ● Make a thorough assessment of dysarthria and the specific symptom complex that justifies a differential diagnosis of unilateral upper motor neuron dysarthria; consult the cited sources and PGASLP ● Note that, in some cases, associated language deficits (aphasia) and apraxia may take treatment priority; dysarthria may or may not be treated, although it is recommended that it be treated ● Modify articulatory problems • use traditional methods to treat articulation disorders • use Intelligibility Drills in which the client reads a list of words and the clinician judges the accuracy of production solely on the basis of phonetic cues and gives appropriate feedback on correct and incorrect productions • use Phonetic Placement Method to teach correct placement of articulators; show articulatory placements in a mirror if necessary; model and reinforce imitated and eventually evoked productions of target words, phrases, and sentences • teach the client to produce the medial and final consonants in words in an exaggerated manner • use Minimal Contrast Drills in which pairs of words that differ by only one phoneme are used to teach correct productions of target sounds Duffy, J. R. (1995). Motor speech disorders. St. Louis, MO: C. V. Mosby. Freed, D. (2000). Motor speech disorders: Diagnosis and treatment. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.

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Dysfluencies. Behaviors that interrupt fluency; measured in diagnosing Stuttering; specific forms include repetitions of sounds, syllables, words, and phrases; prolongations of sounds and articulatory postures; inter- and intralexical pauses; interjections of syllables, words, and phrases; revisions; and incomplete phrases; see PGASLP for examples and assessment procedures.

Dysphagia. Disorders of swallowing, also known as disorders of deglutition; associated with many medical conditions including neuromuscular disorders and cancer of the larynx and the surgical removal of structures involved in swallowing; may occur at any age although more common in the elderly. Disorders of Mastication. Problems in chewing food; may be due to reduced range of movement by the tongue and the mandible, reduced buccal tension, and poor alignment of mandible and maxilla.

Disorders of the Preparatory Phase of the Swallow. Problems in collecting the masticated food to form a bolus as a preparation for swallow; may be due to problems in labial closure, tongue movement and coordination, appropriate holding of the bolus in the mouth (e.g., holding it in the front of the mouth), and reduced oral sensitivity. Disorders of the Oral Phase of the Swallow. Problems in the tongue movement to initiate the voluntary aspect of the swallow and in passing the food over the base of the tongue; by the end of the phase, the bolus will

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Disorders of the Pharyngeal Stage of the Swallow. Problems in propelling the bolus through the pharynx and into the P-E segment; may be due to delayed or absent swallowing reflex, inadequate velopharyngeal closure, reduced pharyngeal Peristalsis, pharyngeal paralysis, laryngeal movement disorders, and so forth.

Disorders of the Esophageal Phase of the Swallow. Problems in passing the bolus through the cricopharyngeus muscle and past the 7th cervical vertebra; due to many muscular and other problems including weak cricopharyngeus, esophageal Peristalsis, and esophageal obstruction (e.g., by a tumor). Treatment of Dysphagia. Management of swallowing problems by a variety of medical and nonmedical procedures; speech-language pathologists may implement most of the nonmedical procedures. General Guidelines ● Make a thorough assessment and diagnosis of the swallowing disorders of the client; consult the cited sources and the PGASLP ● Consider the following factors in deciding whether to treat and with what procedures: • diagnosis of the swallowing disorder and related medical condition of the client; if the disorder is likely to be cleared within a week or two, do not initiate an exercise program; teach a few compensatory strategies; if the patient has significant motor neuron disease, do not initiate range-of-motion exercises that may only tire the client; if the patient cannot follow directions because of dementia, do not select procedures that require the client to comprehend instructions

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Dysphagia: Compensatory Treatment lowing centers of the brain; use one or more of the following sensory enhancement techniques • apply a downward pressure on the tongue while presenting food with a spoon • present a sour bolus (50% lemon juice, 50% barium) before presenting the bolus • present a cold bolus • present a bolus that the patient needs to chew • present a bolus of larger volume • present a thermal-tactile stimulation before presenting a bolus; using a size 00 laryngeal mirror that has been dipped in crushed ice for several seconds, firmly rub the anterior faucial arch four or five times before presenting a bolus; this is expected to sensitize the system so that initiation of oral swallow will trigger pharyngeal swallow; note, however, there is controversy about its effectiveness ● Modification of volume and speed of food presentation: Procedures that change the amount of food presented and the rate of presentation that facilitate swallowing; use the following techniques • Try a larger bolus to trigger pharyngeal swallow in patients • Try a smaller bolus to trigger swallowing in some patients • Present smaller boluses at a slower rate to trigger swallowing in some patients ● Modification of food consistency: Procedures in which the food consistency or viscosity is changed to promote better swallow; try the following modifications • use thin liquids with patients who have oral tongue dysfunction, reduced tongue base retraction, reduced pharyngeal wall contraction, reduced laryngeal elevation, and reduced cricopharyngeal opening 223

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Dysphagia: Direct Treatment • better appreciate the placement of food by placing cold or spicy food in the mouth Disorders of the Oral Phase of the Swallow ● Teach the patient who has developed a tongue thrust to: • place the tongue on the alveolar ridge and initiate a swallow with an upward and backward motion • compensate by placing food at the back of the tongue and then to initiate a swallow ● Teach the patient with reduced tongue elevation to: • compensate by placing food posteriorly in the oral cavity • place the straw almost at the level of the faucial arches to help swallow liquid • tilt the head back and let gravity push the food from the oral cavity into the pharynx • use the Supraglottic Swallow Maneuver to voluntarily protect the airway, if aspiration is a concern ● Teach the patient with disorganized anterior to posterior tongue movement to • hold the Bolus against the palate with the tongue • begin the swallow with a strong, single posterior motion of the tongue ● Teach the patient with a scarred tongue to: • place food behind the scarring • tilt the head posteriorly to allow gravity to help with oral transit Disorders of the Pharyngeal Stage of the Swallow ● Teach the patient with delayed or absent swallowing reflex to compensate by: • tilting the head forward while swallowing • limiting the amount of Bolus that does not overflow into the open airway • counsel the family about the delay in initiating the swallow reflex; ask them to allow that much extra time for each swallow 227

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and interarytenoid area; the procedure may fail in some cases, as the epiglottis tends to pull away from this attachment. Esophagostomy. A nonoral, surgical feeding method for dysphagic patients who cannot tolerate oral feeding; insertion of a feeding tube into the esophagus and stomach through a hole (stoma) surgically created through cervical esophagus. Gastrostomy (G-Tube). A nonoral, surgical feeding method for dysphagic patients who cannot tolerate oral feeding; insertion of a feeding tube into the stomach through an opening in the abdomen; may be inserted under general anesthetic (called operative gastrostomy) or precutaneously with local anesthetic with the help of an endoscope (called precutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy); blended table food is directly transported to the stomach; recommended when long-term (more than 30 days) nonoral feeding is required; may be more or less permanent; can be removed when no longer needed. Jejunostomy. A nonoral, surgical feeding method for dysphagic patients who cannot tolerate oral feeding; insertion of a feeding tube into the jejunum through the abdominal wall; jejunum is that portion of the small intestine that extends from duodenum to the ileum; often recommended to reduce reflux; the food needs to be prepared because it enters the body below the stomach. Laryngeal Bypass or Tracheoesophageal Diversion. A surgical procedure designed to separate the air and food passages to prevent or reduce aspiration; recommended for severely neurologically involved patients with life-threatening aspiration; the trachea is cut at the third or fourth tracheal ring; the proxi-

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have esophageal swallowing disorders; note that patients with oral-pharyngeal swallowing problems typically are not treated with medications. Nasogastric Feeding (NG Tube). A nonoral feeding method for dysphagic patients who cannot tolerate oral feeding; a tube inserted through the nose, pharynx, and esophagus into the stomach feeds the patient; recommended when this type of feeding is needed for a short duration (less than 30 days); less acceptable to patients than some of the other procedures because of constant nasal irritation and social appearance. Pharyngostomy. A nonoral, surgical feeding method for dysphagic patients who cannot tolerate oral feeding; insertion of a feeding tube into the esophagus and stomach through a hole (stoma) surgically created through the pharynx; often more acceptable to patients than the nasogastric feeding. Surgical Reduction of Cervical Osteophytes. A surgical procedure to remove the bony growth on the cervical vertebra that can narrow the pharyngeal area, displace the posterior pharyngeal wall anteriorly, and thus cause swallowing problems; the procedure poses risk of nerve damage and causing a more serious dysphagia. Teflon Injection Into the Vocal Folds. A surgical implant method to improve airway closure during swallowing in dysphagic patients by adding implanted muscle mass that will help close the airway; Teflon may be injected into a normal or reconstructed vocal fold or any remaining tissue on top of the airway; other substances injected include glycerin and gel foam; often performed on patients who undergo partial laryngectomy; also performed on patients with such neurological disorders as Parkinson’s disease; note that aspiration caused by 236

Dysphonia lack of vocal fold closure may occur only in 10% of patients; its use is on the decline because of such complications as the formation of Teflon granuloma. Total Laryngectomy. Total removal of the hyoid bone and the larynx to permanently separate the food and air passages; performed on patients who already have undergone partial laryngectomy and now cannot control aspiration; a last-resort procedure to control aspiration. Tracheostomy. A surgical procedure to reduce or eliminate aspiration and improve pulmonary toilet; partially protects the lower respiratory tract from material that may pass the laryngeal sphincter; however, the procedure’s effectiveness in reducing aspiration is limited. Groher, M. E. (1997). Dysphagia: Diagnosis and management (3rd ed.). Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann. Huckabee, M. L., & Pelletier, C. A. (1999). Management of adult neurogenic dysphagia. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Logemann, J. (1998). Evaluation and treatment of swallowing disorders (2nd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Pearlman, A. L., & Schulze-Delrieu, K. (1997). Deglutition and its disorders. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.

Dysphonia. A general term that means disordered voice; any voice disorder with the exception of Aphonia.

Dystonia. Movements that are repetitive, slow, twisting, writhing, and flexing. Uncontrolled adductor and abductor laryngeal spasms occur; voice is breathy, strained, and hoarse.

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Effectiveness of Treatment. Assurance that treatment, not some other factor, was responsible for the positive changes documented in a client under treatment; requires controlled evidence gathered through clinical experimentation; data should show that treatment was better than no treatment; may use a group experimental design or a single-subject experimental design to establish this; not the same as Improvement or Functional Outcomes.

Effortful Closure Techniques. Behavioral treatment techniques to promote laryngeal adduction for clients with unilateral or bilateral vocal fold paralysis or weakness as found in many clients with dysarthria; the client is taught to grunt, cough, push, lift, and pull while trying to phonate; the muscular effort helps push the folds together.

Effortful Swallow. A swallowing maneuver that helps increase the posterior motion of the tongue base during the pharyngeal swallow; to implement this maneuver, ask the patient to: ● Squeeze hard with all of the muscles as he or she swallows

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Electronic Device for Alaryngeal Speech message; used in teaching Augmentative Communication, Gestural-Assisted (Aided).

Electronic Device for Alaryngeal Speech (Electrolarynx). Hand-held electronic instruments that generate sound; used by persons who have undergone laryngectomy to produce alaryngeal speech; for rehabilitation procedures, see Laryngectomy; Treatment Procedures: Laryngectomy.

Electronic Gestural-Assisted Communication Strategies. The same as Electronic Communication Systems. Elicited Aggression. Aggressive behavior directed against any object or person when an aversive stimulus (as in operant punishment procedures) is delivered; not necessarily directed against the person delivering the aversive stimulus; a potential undesirable side-effect of punishment. ● A child may kick the table when ‘‘No’’ is said to a wrong response ● A child may sweep the stimulus materials off the table when a token is taken away in a response cost procedure ● Note that to reduce elicited aggression in treatment, use punishment procedures sparingly and use more positive reinforcement and discriminative reinforcement that may indirectly control undesirable behaviors Hegde, M. N. (1998). Treatment procedures in communicative disorders (3rd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Empirical Validity. Credibility or truthfulness of statements based on research data; assurance that treatment procedures have been shown to be effective through experimentation involving clients (as against logical arguments or scholarly speculation); a criterion for treatment selection.

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Event Structures. Sequentially organized, familiar events taken from daily life and routinized to teach language structures to children; for procedures, see Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Evoked Trials. Structured opportunities to produce a response when the clinician does not model; part of the discrete trial procedure; often used in the beginning stages of treatment; most useful in teaching articulation and language structures; contrasted with Modeled Trials; include Baseline Evoked Trials and Treatment Evoked Trials; in administering an evoked trial: ● Present a stimulus, such as a picture or an object, to the client by placing it on the table 246

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An example of something; in treatment, a response that illustrates a target behavior; these may be words, phrases, sentences, gestures, and so forth; for example, the word soup is an exemplar if used in teaching the /s/ or /p/; thus, all words, phrases, and sentences used in teaching correct production of phonemes are exemplars; the sentence The boy is running is an exemplar if used in teaching the noun phrase, the auxiliary, or the main verb plus ing; thus, all phrases and sentences used in teaching language structures are exemplars; pictures and objects used in treatment also may be considered exemplars; an individual stimulus item designed to evoke a specific target response: ● Select multiple exemplars for each target behavior to be taught (e.g., 20 words to teach the /p/ in initial positions; 20 sentences that contain the regular plural s) ● Teach multiple exemplars of each target behaviors to enhance the potential for generalized production ● Probe after teaching a few (4 to 6) exemplars to see if generalized productions emerge with untrained stimulus items ● Teach more exemplars if the client does not meet the probe criterion (e.g., 90% accuracy of the target phoneme production in a set of 10 untrained words) ● Note that generalized production often results with a few exemplar training items (typically less than 10 exemplars) 247

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Experiment. A controlled condition in which an independent variable (such as treatment) is manipulated to produce changes in a dependent variable (production of speech or language); a means of establishing cause-effect relations; needed to establish treatment effects; may use the Group Design Strategy or the Single-Subject Design Strategy.

Experimental Group. In a clinical experiment, the group that receives treatment and hence shows changes in skills taught; part of the Group Design Strategy for establishing treatment effectiveness; contrasted with a Control Group. ● Select participants randomly (Random Selection) ● Assign participants into control and experimental groups randomly (Random Assignment) ● Alternatively, match subjects in the experimental and control groups (Matching) ● Assess the experimental and control groups to make sure they are equal ● Treat the experimental group while withholding treatment to the control group ● Demonstrate that the experimental group changed (improved), whereas the control group did not

Expiratory Board. A prosthetic devise used to improve respiratory muscle strength for speech; client pulls a board attached to wheelchair toward his or her abdomen and leans against it to stabilize the muscles; often used in treating breathing problems associated with Dysarthria.

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from the stream of activities (e.g., make the child sit outside the classroom or in a corner) ● Bring the child back to the stream of activities after a brief period of time ● Note that this procedure is generally not recommended because it takes time away from treatment ● Prefer nonexclusion time-out to exclusion time-out; in nonexclusion time-out, a brief period of silence (about 5 seconds) with no eye contact is imposed on an undesirable behavior; more efficient than removing the child from the stream of activities

Expressive Aphasia. Aphasia whose main characteristic is difficulty in expressive language and speech; a general term that suggests difficulty talking with no significant impairment in auditory comprehension; often refers to Broca’s aphasia.

Extension. A language treatment method in which the clinician makes comments on the child’s utterances to add additional meaning; for procedures, see Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Extinction. A procedure to reduce undesirable response by terminating reinforcement for that response; similar to ignoring in everyday life; one of the Direct Methods of Response Reduction; use the following guidelines in implementing an extinction procedure: ● Factors that affect extinction; note that whether and how fast a behavior will be extinguished depends on the: • amount of past reinforcement for that response; a heavily reinforced response is more difficult to extinguish than the one reinforced less heavily • duration of reinforcement; a response reinforced for a longer duration may be more difficult to extinguish than the one reinforced for a short duration 249

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Extinction of Automatically Reinforced Behaviors. The procedure of terminating automatic reinforcers for responses to be reduced; one of the Direct Methods of Response Reduction; especially useful in reducing self-stimulatory behaviors of clients who are autistic, profoundly mentally retarded, or brain injured because these behaviors are thought to be automatically reinforced by the sensory consequences they generate for those who exhibit them. ● Determine the sensory consequence of the undesirable behavior to be reduced (noise from banging on the table; stimulation from banging the head) ● Reduce or eliminate the sensory stimulation derived from the behavior to be reduced (cover the table with soft material or make the child wear a padded helmet) Extinction of Negatively Reinforced Behaviors. The procedure of terminating negative reinforcers for responses to be reduced; one of the Direct Methods of Response Reduction; also known as Escape Extinction; appropriate to reduce such behaviors as crawling under the table during treatment, leaving the chair and walking around the treatment room, interrupting treatment trials by suddenly interjecting ‘‘You know what?’’ types of responses, and grabbing the clinician’s pen or the stimulus material; such behaviors are exhibited because treatment trials are aversive to the child and the behavior provides escape from treatment work; the undesirable behavior is negatively reinforced because of such escape from aversive work; this escape needs to be prevented to stop reinforcement for it. 251

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Extinction of Positively Reinforced Behaviors.

The procedure of terminating positive reinforcers for responses to be reduced; one of the Direct Methods of Response Reduction; appropriate to reduce such behaviors as crying maintained by reinforcement; should not be used to reduce aggressive, self-destructive, and generally disruptive behaviors, negatively reinforced behaviors, automatically reinforced behaviors, or behaviors that are due to physical pain and discomfort. ● At the very outset of extinction, tell the client that you will pay attention only when the undesirable behavior stops (e.g., say ‘‘As soon as you stop crying, I will take you out to see your mother.’’) ● Pay no more attention until the behavior stops; turn your back and sit motionless; do not try to use other means of stopping the behavior; do not peek at the child ● Do not be unnerved when the behavior initially intensifies (Extinction Burst); continue to ignore the behavior ● Pay immediate attention when the behavior subsides or stops (e.g., say ‘‘That is very good! You stopped crying; we can now go see your mother.’’)

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Extraclinical Settings (Training In) Extraclinical Settings (Training In). Training given in such nonclinical settings as a playground, classroom, home, and other places; essential part of Maintenance Strategy; training is less formal, involving spontaneous, functional communication; often administered by such significant others as teachers, family members, and friends.

Extrapyramidal System. A neural pathway that carries motor impulses from the brain to various muscles via several relay stations; also called the indirect motor system; damage to this system may cause muscle tone problems and may affect voluntary movements of speech muscles; involved in Dysarthria; contrasted with the Pyramidal System.

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Looking at the listener’s face during conversation; a pragmatic language intervention target; subject to ethnocultural variations, as in some cultures, eye contact between certain conversational partners (e.g., between a student and a teacher) may not be appropriate; for procedures, see Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

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A method of nonverbal communication often taught to individuals with severe neuromuscular impairment; a method of Augmentative and Alternative Communication; the client is taught to gaze at a word, a phrase, a symbol, or an object to convey a message.

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Generalized production of unreinforced responses given in relation to new stimuli, settings, and audience; the most complex form of stimulus generalization. ● Use a variety of stimuli to evoke target behaviors ● Vary treatment settings ● Arrange different conversational partners for the client ● Probe for factorial stimulus generalization

Fading. A method of reducing the controlling power of such special stimuli as modeling and prompting while still maintaining the target responses the stimuli evoke. ● Reduce the frequency of the special stimulus (e.g., modeling) gradually ● Reduce the intensity of the stimulus (e.g., present Prompts in progressively softer voice until it is no longer provided) ● Present only a partial stimulus (as in Partial Modeling) ● Make the stimulus progressively more subtle (e.g., make the hand gesture given to slow down the speech of a person who stutters less and less conspicuous) ● Make a mechanical stimulus nonfunctional (e.g., turn off a microphone that the client still holds, or turn off a computer screen that remains in front of the client) 256

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First Words. The first few words a child typically acquires; language treatment targets for young children who are nearly nonverbal. ● Select child-specific words ● Select the names of family members, child’s favorite toys (car, doll), food items (milk, juice, candy), clothing items (sock, shoe), action verbs (come, go, walk), simple adjectives (big, small), animals (kitty, doggie), household objects (pen, book, spoon, chair, table), and words from similar categories ● Use the structured, Direct Language Treatment Approaches if the child is nearly nonverbal and has attention deficit: • use the Discrete Trials ● Use indirect language stimulation if the child interacts well and can concentrate on loosely structured treatment activities; use a play-oriented situation: • frequently model the target word productions • use the Mand-Model approach • use the Incidental Teaching Method ● Train parents to stimulate language at home; teach parents to: • have the child label an item before you hand it to him or her • read stories to the child and have the child name pictures • ask questions about the pictures (e.g., ‘‘How does the kitty go?’’) ● Give training in varied contexts and probe for generalized productions ● Move on to teaching Phrases (Word Combinations)

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Flaccid Dysarthria. A type of motor speech disorder caused by damage to the motor units of cranial or spinal nerves that supply speech muscles (lower motor neuron involvement). See Treatment of Dysarthria: Specific Types under Dysarthria.

Fluency. An aspect of speech and language production; quality or state of being fluent.

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Speech disorders characterized by excessive amounts of dysfluencies, excessive duration of dysfluencies, or both; speech that is produced with excessive amounts of struggle and effort (Stuttering); speech that is characterized by excessively fast rate, indistinct articulation, and possibly language formulation problems (Cluttering); impaired fluency due to Neurogenic Fluency Disorders; Stuttering is the most researched and more frequently diagnosed and treated fluency disorder in the United States.

Fluency Reinforcement Techniques.

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Fluency Shaping Techniques Fluency Shaping Techniques. A collection of stuttering treatment techniques based on the assumption that normalsounding fluency should be the intervention goal; include teaching such skills as airflow management, gentle onset of phonation, and reduced rate of speech through syllable prolongation; contrasted with Fluent Stuttering: Van Riper’s Approach; described under Stuttering, Treatment; Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Fluent Aphasia. A type of aphasia characterized by fluent but mostly meaningless speech full of neologistic words and jargon compounded by auditory comprehension deficits; contrasted with Nonfluent Aphasia; includes Wernicke’s aphasia, transcortical sensory aphasia, conduction aphasia, and anomic aphasia; see Aphasia and Treatment of Aphasia: Specific Types.

Fluent Speech. Speech that is smooth, flowing, effortless, and rapid within acceptable limits; negatively defined, it is speech that does not contain excessive amounts of pauses, repetitions, sound and silent prolongations, interjections, and other forms of dysfluencies; speech that is not produced with excessive effort and struggle; a treatment target for persons who stutter.

Fluent Stuttering: Van Riper’s Approach. A stuttering treatment approach based on the assumption that reduced abnormality of stuttering, not fluent speech, is a realistic goal for most persons who stutter; includes teaching such skills as cancellation, pull-outs, and preparatory sets along with counseling, desensitization, and stabilization of fluent stuttering; for procedures see Stuttering, Treatment; Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Techniques or Programs.

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Frequency of Occurrence of English Consonants. Use the following frequency of occurrence information in selecting treatment targets for children who misarticulate; note that frequency of occurrence is not an absolute criterion of selection; consider other factors as well (described under Articulation and Phonological Disorder); note that frequency suggests ranking based on the relative frequency of 24 English consonants (e.g., 16th for /p/ means that it ranks 16 in occurrence among the consonants); the lower the ranking, the higher the frequency; two different rankings for the same sound suggest discrepancy among studies: Sound Frequency

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Functional Equivalence Training Delattre, P. (1965). Comparing the phonetic features of English, German, Spanish, and French. Heidelberg, Germany: Verlog. Shrieberg, L. D., & Kwiatowski, J. (1983). Computer assisted natural process analysis (NPA): Recent issues and data. Seminars in Speech and Language, 4, 397–406.

Functional Equivalence Training. An indirect method of reducing an undesirable behavior by reinforcing a desirable behavior that serves the same function as the undesirable behavior (e.g., teaching a verbal request to a nonverbal child who whines to get adult attention; the verbal request serves the same function as whining and thus is reduced in frequency); the same as the Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behaviors (DRA); to implement this procedure: ● Find out the functions of an undesirable behavior that need to be reduced by analyzing: • the conditions under which an undesirable behavior occurs • the consequences it seeks (e.g., attention, reduction in needs, reduction in aversive stimulation, or sensory stimulation) ● teach a desirable, alternative behavior that is followed by the same consequence ● record the frequency of both the undesirable behavior (which should decrease) and the desirable (which should increase)

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Gender Reassignment • teach the client to use more indirect speech and indirect requests (e.g., ‘‘Do you mind doing . . .’’ instead of ‘‘Do this’’ type of command) • teach the client to emphasize feelings and relationships as against facts in speech • teach female body language (more smiling, touching, eye contact) • avoid such masculine habits of throat clearing and coughing Andrews, M. L. (1999). Manual of voice treatment (2nd ed.). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.

Gender Reassignment. Sex change; someone who has been living as a man may now become a woman or vice versa through a sex-change operation; he or she may seek communication treatment to achieve the new and intended gender identity.

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Generalization. A declining rate of unreinforced responses in the presence of untrained stimuli; a temporary, intermediate goal of treatment; includes Verbal Stimulus Generalization, Physical Setting Generalization, Audience Generalization, Factorial Stimulus Generalization, and Response Generalization; each may be promoted with specific techniques; see Maintenance Strategy to promote lasting treatment effects.

Generalized Production. Production of clinically established behaviors in relation to new stimuli, new audiences, and in new situations; measured through Probes.

Genetic/Neurophysiological Contingency. The interdependent relation between genetic and neurophysiological variables that determine or influence behaviors; contingency that interacts with Environmental Contingency.

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Gestural Communication.

Method of communication that supplements oral communication with smiles and a variety of other facial expressions, body movements including shoulder shrugging, hand movements, pantomime, pointing, and head nodding or shaking; part of normal oral communication; in gestural communication, expressions are important in communicating the speaker’s messages; gestural communication may be unaided as in smiling or hand movements; or aided, as in gestures combined with a communication board; procedures described under Augmentative Communication, Gestural (Unaided) and Augmentative Communication, Gestural-Assisted (Aided).

Glossectomy. Partial or total surgical removal of a diseased or severely damaged tongue.

Glottal Fry. A normal voice register that may occur at the end of sentences; very low-pitched vocalization that may sound like the popping of popcorn; also called vocal fry.

Gradient of Generalization. Progressively decreasing, unreinforced response rate as a stimulus is varied on a given dimension, resulting in a curve that approximates the bellshaped curve; the reason why generalization is not a final treatment goal.

Gradual Increase in Length and Complexity of Utterances (GILCU). A component of the Monterey Fluency Program; for procedures see Stuttering, Treatment; Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Techniques or Programs.

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Hard of Hearing. Persons who have reduced hearing acuity but nonetheless are able to acquire, produce, and comprehend language primarily with the help of audition; may use amplification and visual cues to understand speech.

Harshness. Voice quality that results from excessive laryngeal tension, effort, and constriction. ● Use relaxation to reduce vocal tension ● Teach soft, easy contact of the vocal folds ● Teach gentle onset of phonation ● Use a combination of Specific Normal Voice Facilitating Techniques described under Voice Disorders

Hearing Aid. Electronic device that amplifies sound and is prescribed for individuals with hearing impairment; may be of analog or digital variety; types include body-worn, behind-the-ear (BTE), eye glass, in-the-canal (ITC), in-the-ear (ITE), or completely in-the-canal (CIC).

Hearing Aid Evaluation. An aural rehabilitation procedure in which different kinds of hearing aids are tried to make a selection of an aid that best fits the hearing loss profile and gives the most benefit to the client.

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Hearing Conservation. A program designed to prevent or reduce the risk of hearing loss; includes procedures to monitor hearing over a period of time and to educate the client, family, employers, and employees about protecting their hearing.

Hearing Impairment. Reduced hearing acuity; a hearing level that is greater than 25 dB HL for adults and 15 dB HL for young children in the process of language acquisition; includes the Hard of Hearing and the Deaf; classified as shown under Hearing Loss; oral speech and language disorders are a common concomitant of hearing impairment, especially deafness; mostly, the treatment procedures for Language Disorders in Children, Articulation and Phonological Disorders, and Voice Disorders are applicable with the following special considerations:

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ity and hyponasality Treating Prosodic Problems ● Teach smooth flow of speech ● Reduce pauses that may be too frequent and placed inappropriately ● Teach normal intonation ● Teach appropriate breath control to improve phrasing ● Modify the pitch ● Modify loudness

Hearing Loss. Roughly the same as Hearing Impairment; classified as follows: ● Mild hearing loss: 15–40 dB HL Moderate hearing loss: 41–70 dB HL Severe hearing loss: 71–90 dB HL Profound hearing loss: 90 dB and higher

High Probability Behaviors. Behaviors of high frequency that can reinforce those of low frequency; an effective treatment method to increase low frequency treatment targets. ● Identify behaviors your client exhibits frequently (e.g., listening to music, watching television, or skiing) ● Design a method by which you in the treatment sessions and the family members at home can control opportunities for those behaviors ● Give tokens in treatment sessions for producing the lowfrequency communicative skills ● Let the client accumulate the tokens and exchange them for opportunities to engage in the high-probability behaviors (brief periods of listening to music in treatment sessions, watching TV at home, or going on ski trips)

Hoarseness. Voice quality that results from leakage of air and aperiodic vibration of the vocal folds; pitch may be too low; any condition that changes the mass and size of the vocal folds, including vocal nodules, may cause hoarseness of voice. 277

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Hyperadduction.

Closure of vocal folds with excessive force and tension. ● Teach laryngeal relaxation ● Teach breathy onset of phonation ● Teach gentle, relaxed, easy phonatory onset ● Massage the larynx ● Use such other specific normal voice facilitation techniques as the Yawn-Sigh Method and the Chewing Technique described under Voice Disorders; Specific Normal Voice Facilitating Techniques.

Hyperkeratosis.

Keratotic lesions in the pharynx or larynx; a pinkish, rough lesion with horny growth; associated with Voice Disorders; nonmalignant in the initial states; may be a precursor to malignant lesion; due to continued irritation of tissue, including chronic smoking; treatment is to stop behaviors that result in continued irritation (e.g., cessation of smoking).

Hyperkinetic Dysarthria. A type of motor speech disorder; its neuropathology is damage to basal ganglia (extrapyramidal system) resulting in rapid involuntary movements and variable muscle tone; may affect all aspects of speech, but a dominant symptom is prosodic disturbances; see Hy278

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Hypernasality. Nasal resonance on nonnasal speech sounds; a resonance disorder; intervention described under Voice Disorders; Treatment of Disorders of Resonance.

Hypertonia. Excessive muscle tone or tension; a sign of neurological damage; a symptom in many clients with neurogenic communication disorders (e.g., cerebral palsy, dysarthria).

Hypoadduction. Inadequate approximation of vocal folds; results in breathiness and weak voice; often associated with neurological involvement; a symptom found in such neurogenic communication disorders as Dysarthria and Voice Disorders due to vocal fold paralysis. ● Elicit coughing, grunting, throat clearing, and laughing to improve Adduction ● Use Digital Manipulation of the Larynx described under Voice Disorders; Specific Normal Voice Facilitating Techniques; use this technique along with pressure applied to the abdominal muscles to increase subglottic pressure ● Teach pushing, pulling, and lifting exercises and combine them with phonation; see Dysarthria

Hypokinetic Dysarthria. A type of motor speech disorder; its neuropathology is damage to basal ganglia (extrapyramidal system) resulting in slow movement, limited range of movement, and rigidity; may affect all aspects of speech, but especially voice, articulation, and prosody; see Hypokinetic Dysarthria under Treatment of Dysarthria: Specific Types.

Hyponasality. Reduced or absent nasal resonance in the production of nasal sounds; the same as Denasality; intervention described under Voice Disorders; Treatment of Disorders of Resonance.

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Iconic Symbols Iconic Symbols.

A symbol that looks like the object it is supposed to represent; used in teaching Augmentative Communication, Gestural-Assisted (Aided); easier to learn than Noniconic Symbols.

Ideographic Symbols. Graphic representation of ideas; more abstract than pictographic symbols; may be line drawings; used in teaching Augmentative Communication, Gestural-Assisted (Aided).

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IEPs (Individualized Education Programs). Childspecific intervention programs designed for children with disabilities or special needs served in public grade schools. ● Assess the child’s communicative strengths and weakness ● Write an IEP for each child you serve; consult with teachers and special educators to include specific goals and objectives they suggest ● State the short- and long-term intervention objectives in measurable terms ● Describe the frequency and duration of your intervention sessions ● Specify the amount of time the child will spend in regular classroom ● Specify the intervention initiation and termination dates ● Justify the need for your services (use the school district’s guidelines in determining service eligibility) ● Specify the names of special education or other professionals who also will serve the child ● Talk to family members to get their input and approval of treatment goals ● Hold an IEP meeting to finalize the intervention plan and to get the signatures of all attending, including those of the parents ● Make periodic assessment of the child to see if the goals are being met and to evaluate whether the goals or treatment procedures need to be modified 282

Individualized Family Service Plans IFSPs (Individualized Family Service Plans). Special education programs designed for children with disabilities in the age range of birth through 2 years and their family members. ● Develop a plan similar to IEPs ● Include information on the family’s needs and strengths ● Orient the plan toward family involvement

Imitation. A response that follows a modeled stimulus and takes the same or similar form of its stimulus; frequently used in the beginning states of treatment of most if not all communicative disorders; Modeling is the treatment technique to evoke imitation; to teach imitative responses: ● Model the correct response for the client; use instructions and demonstrations as found appropriate ● Place extra vocal emphasis on the specific target behavior in a modeled utterance (e.g., ‘‘Say two cups,’’ with an emphasis on the grammatic morpheme in teaching the regular plural productions) ● Reinforce the client for imitating the modeled response ● Reinforce approximations initially, especially in the treatment of correct articulation of phonemes ● Require greater match to the modeled response in successive trials ● Fade modeling gradually to transition to evoked responses

Imitation of Aversive Control. Use of aversive methods to control others by persons who were subjected to aversive control themselves; a potential, undesirable sideeffect of punishment procedures; a reason to limit punishment procedures in treatment by using strong positive reinforcement techniques for desirable target behaviors.

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Positive Practice

● Ask the child to practice an incompatible, appropriate be-

havior repeatedly without reinforcement (ask the child to organize your stimulus materials)

Improvement. Documented positive changes in the client’s behaviors compared to initial assessment or baseline performance; needed to justify treatment; what a clinician can claim when routine treatment is offered; not the same as Effectiveness of Treatment, which requires controlled experimental evidence that demonstrates that treatment was better than no treatment.

Incidental Teaching Method. A naturalistic language treatment method that uses everyday verbal interactions to teach functional communication skills; procedure described under Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Incompatible Behaviors. Behaviors that cannot be produced simultaneously, such as sitting and walking; used to reduce certain undesirable behaviors; targets in the Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behaviors (DRI).

Independent Variables. Hypothesized or demonstrated causes of events scientists investigate; treatment methods clinicians use; anything a clinician does that affects the client’s behavior, including instructions, modeling, demonstration, 284

Indirect Language Stimulation positive reinforcement, and corrective feedback; contrasted with Dependent Variables.

Indirect Language Stimulation. A collection of somewhat varied, naturalistic, unstructured, or minimally structured language stimulation procedures based on play activities with no systematic reinforcement for specified target behaviors; for procedures, see Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Indirect Methods of Response Reduction. Reducing certain behaviors by increasing other behaviors; indirect because no contingency is placed on behaviors to be decreased; in many cases, more desirable than the direct methods of response reduction because they avoid negative side effects of punishment; include Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior, Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior, Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates of Responding, and Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior.

Indirect Treatment for Swallowing Disorders. Treatment of swallowing disorders in which food is not presented to the patient; mostly involves various kinds of exercises; see Direct Treatment for Swallowing Disorders.

Informative Feedback. Information provided to the client on his or her performance levels that reinforces clinical target skills; may be verbal or mechanical; contrasted with Mechanical Corrective Feedback, Nonverbal Corrective Feedback, or Verbal Corrective Feedback in which the information provided is specific to the wrong responses to be decreased.

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Infrared Systems. A variety of Assistive Listening Devices that includes a transmitter that transmits messages on light pulses to a receiver worn by a person with hearing impairment; useful in such large listening environments as concert halls and classrooms.

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Inhalation Method. A method of air intake to produce esophageal speech; for procedures, see Laryngectomy; Treat Esophageal Speech.

Inhalation Phonation. A technique of voice therapy to evoke true vocal fold vibration in clients who are aphonic; for procedures, see Voice Disorders, Specific Normal Voice Facilitating Techniques.

Initial Response. The first, simplified component of a target response used in Shaping.

Injection Method. A method of air intake to produce esophageal speech; for procedures, see Laryngectomy; Treat Esophageal Speech.

Instructions. Verbal stimuli that promote the production of target responses; often used in treatment sessions; combined with Demonstrations, Modeling, and Manual Guidance (as in Phonetic Placement Method) ● Design instructions that clarify the target behavior for the client ● Simplify your instructions and tailor them to the individual client ● Write your instructions and practice their delivery, but deliver them naturally; do not read them ● Repeat instructions until the client understands them ● Combine them with demonstrations, modeling, and manual guidance 286

Intelligibility Intelligibility. The degree to which a speaker’s speech is understandable to others; impaired for various reasons, but typically will be inadequate articulation of speech sounds; a treatment target in treating speech disorders in a variety of clients including children with articulation disorders and adults with dysarthria.

Intelligibility Drills. A method to help improve intelligibility of speech in speakers who have Dysarthria.

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the printed word, and give corrective feedback to the client ● Ask the client to try saying the same word again Yorkston, K. M., Beukelman, D. R., & Bell, K. (1988). Clinical management of dysarthric speakers. San Diego: College-Hill Press.

Intention Tremor. Tremor that is absent during periods of rest, but manifests itself during voluntary movements.

Interdisciplinary Teams. Teams of different specialists who assess and design treatment programs for clients; typically headed by one specialist; members finalize assessment and treatment plans after one or more meetings.

Interfering Behaviors. Behaviors that interrupt the treatment process; includes such behaviors as leaving the chair, asking irrelevant questions during treatment, crying, wiggling in the chair, and inattentiveness; sometimes a priority focus for clinical intervention because speech-language behaviors cannot be trained unless such interfering behaviors are reduced or eliminated. 287

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Intermediate Care. A health care facility where persons with disability or chronic illness needing long-term care are admitted; facilities that persons enter after they have been discharged from a hospital and still need professional care.

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Intermittent Reinforcement. Several schedules of reinforcement in which only some responses or responses produced with specified delay are reinforced; produces stronger response rates than Continuous Reinforcement; includes the Fixed Ratio, Fixed Interval, Variable Ratio, and Variable Interval Schedules; useful in promoting response maintenance over time; to be used in the intermediate and final strategies of treatment, as it is not very effective in establishing the target responses.

Intermixed Probes. Procedures used to assess generalized production of a trained skill by alternating trained and untrained stimulus items; alternating trained and untrained stimuli helps prevent extinction of trained responses because responses given to trained stimuli are reinforced (those given to untrained stimuli are not); see Articulation Disorders for an example. ● Have at least 10 items not trained (e.g., 10 words or phrases with the plural s when this grammatic morpheme is the treatment target; 10 words or phrases with /z/ in the medial position when this phoneme is the treatment target) ● Prepare a Probe Recording Sheet on which you have alternated trained and untrained exemplars; have at least 10 untrained exemplars that may be words, phrases, or sentences used in training phonemes or grammatic morphemes 288

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Hegde, M. N. (1998). Treatment procedures in communicative disorders (3rd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Intersystemic Reorganization. Use of certain gestures, manual signs, or rhythmic and unusual movements (e.g., tapping, pantomiming, AMER-IND gestures or idiosyncratic gestures a patient invents) to facilitate speech production; often used in the treatment of patients with aphasia. ● Select a set of simple, easily recognizable gestures for the client (e.g., cupping the hand behind the ear to suggest ‘‘speak louder’’; or select AMER-IND gestures to suggest specific meanings) ● Teach the client to produce the gesture and understand its meaning; use modeling and manual guidance of the gestural movements; educate the client about the meaning of the gesture if it is not clear; make sure the client can use them reliably and communicatively ● Combine the gesture with speaking; model both the gesture and the verbal expression that goes with it; have the client imitate both in combination; when the client is producing the combination, simultaneously model them or 289

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Rosenbek, J. C., LaPointe, L. L., & Wertz, R. T. (1989). Aphasia: A clinical approach. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

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Introduction and manipulation of external variables to affect the course of a disorder, disease, problem behavior, or condition with a view to eliminate the condition or effect positive changes; the same as treatment.

In-the-Ear Hearing Aid. A small hearing aid that fits within the ear canal and concha.

Intonation. Variations in pitch that give speech a pleasant melodic quality; a normal aspect of speech; a treatment target in many clients with communication disorders or when stutter-free speech is instated with slow speech that results in monotonous speech.

Intraverbal Generalization. Stimulus and response generalization within forms of verbal behaviors; primarily includes expansions of language skills acquired under treatment.

Intubation Granuloma. A lesion of the larynx that occurs at or near the vocal process of the arytenoid because of trauma caused by the insertion, positioning, or removal of an endotracheal tube; treatment is surgical; no voice therapy except for vocal rest. 290

Isolated Therapy Model Isolated Therapy Model. A special education service delivery model in which children are taken out of the classroom for special instruction, including speech-language instruction; the same as the Pull-Out Therapy Model.

Isolation Time-Out. Response-contingent removal of a person from a reinforcing environment and placing him or her in a nonreinforcing environment; a variation of TimeOut; involves physical isolation (such as placing the person in an isolation booth); may be considered only in reducing highly abusive, aggressive, or self-destructive behaviors; not especially useful in communication treatment sessions; misuse of this technique is common in educational settings; Nonexclusion Time-Out is preferred.

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Jargon Jargon. A term with varied meanings in speech-language pathology; generally, it means technical or specialized terms of sciences, business, trade, and professions; in child language, it means syllable strings an infant produces with adult-like intonation patterns; in aphasia, it means expressions the patient invents yet are meaningless to the listener.

Jitter. A cycle-to-cycle variation in frequency of vocal fold vibrations that exceeds 1%; a voice disorder of pitch; also described as frequency perturbations.

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Joint Attention.

Two or more people paying attention to the same event or object simultaneously; thought to be important in teaching communication skills; used in language treatment with children in which the clinician and the child pay attention to an event or object simultaneously.

Joint Reference. Establishing the same object as the point of reference in language treatment; lack of joint reference can create problems in communication, as two conversational partners will be talking about different things; in language therapy, drawing attention to the stimulus item before evoking speech or language.

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Keratosis Keratosis. Horny growth (e.g., a wart or callous growth) on certain organs, including the mouth, pharynx, and larynx; see Hyperkeratosis.

Keyboard.

A device that gives input to the computer with different layouts of letters, numbers, and other command inputs; may include key depression, touch membrane, or touch screen surfaces; used in Augmentative and Alternative Communication.

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Key Word. A word in which a generally misarticulated sound is correctly produced; needed to implement the Paired-Stimuli Approach described under Articulation and Phonological Disorders; Treatment of Articulation and Phonological Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Kinesiology. The study of body movement. Kinesthesia. Sensation or awareness of movement, weight, tension, and position of body parts; joint, muscle, and hair receptors help generate this sensation.

Kinesthetic Cues. Cues that help increase the awareness of positions of articulators and their movement patterns involved in producing speech sounds correctly; visual or verbal cues that help the child understand the articulatory positions and movement patterns.

Korsakoff’s Syndrome. A syndrome characterized by anterograde and retrograde amnesia resulting from chronic alcoholism; currently, used to refer to any amnestic syndrome; also used to refer to the amnestic (memory deficit) aspects of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.

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Language Delay in Children. Generally the same as Language Disorders in Children, except for the connotation that children with language delay are slow in learning and that they will catch up with their normally progressing peers; language disorders in children tend to persist; hence, disorders and delay are not synonyms; treatment procedures the same as those for Language Disorders in Children.

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Language Disorders in Adults. Difficulty in comprehending, formulating, and producing language; often there is a history of normally acquired and used language functions; loss of language functions often are due to physical diseases, especially neurological diseases; includes Aphasia, Apraxia, Dementia, Dysarthria, and language disorders associated with Right-Hemisphere Syndrome and Traumatic Brain Injury.

Language Disorders in Children. Difficulty in learning to comprehend and/or produce language in a varied group of children, some of whom have associated clinical conditions whereas others show no such conditions; also referred to as Language Delay, Language Disabilities, Language Deviance, Language Impairment, Language-Learning Disorders, and Language Problems; the term Childhood or 298

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Ethnocultural Considerations in Treating Language Disorders in Children ● Language is not just a linguistic code, it is a part of

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ally diverse children; this requires a knowledge of the child’s language characteristics and his or her cultural communication patterns; selected targets should be consistent with the child’s dialectal variation; a feature that is a part of the child’s language, but conflicts with another group norm should not be a target for modification; information on treating certain culturally diverse groups in the United States is now accumulating; see Treatment of Language Disorders in African American Children and Treatment of Language Disorders in Bilingual Children following the next major entry.

Treatment of Language Disorders in Children: General Guidelines Several issues are relevant to the target behavior selection process. Consider the following: ● Selection of Target Behaviors • normative strategy, which requires clinicians to select target behaviors based on language development norms; a child with a language disorder does not meet the normative expectations; therefore, the skills that are missing from the standpoint of norms are considered the treatment targets • client-specific strategy, which emphasizes functional targets; accordingly, target behaviors should be childspecific; in selecting target behaviors for a child, his or her family and educational demands, family communication patterns, and the behaviors that, when taught, will make a difference, need to be considered; this view is more consistent with the functional view of language treatment and preserves the notion of uniqueness of each individual ● Sequencing the Language Targets for Treatment • normative strategy, which requires that selected target behaviors should be sequenced according to the

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Treatment of Language Disorders in Children A Comprehensive, Integrated, Treatment Procedure for Language Disorders in Children ● Make a complete assessment based on an extended conversational speech and other culturally sensitive assessment tools; consult the cited sources and the PGASLP ● Determine what the child can and cannot do with language (comprehension and production; structures the child understands and uses and those that the child does not understand or use) ● Follow these steps in developing a language treatment plan for a child: • select target behaviors for training • plan a sequence of treatment • select stimulus materials • establish baselines • write a treatment and maintenance plan • implement the treatment plan • implement the maintenance plan ● Select language intervention targets that: • are child-specific and ethnoculturally appropriate • are useful in natural settings

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Noun possessives may be omitted.

That’s the woman’s That the woman car. car. It John pencil. It’s John’s pencil.

Noun plurals may be omitted.

He has 2 boxes of apples. She gives me 5 cents.

Third person singular may be omitted

She walks to school. She walk to school. The man works in The man work in his yard. his yard.

Forms of to be (is, are) may be omitted.

She is a nice lady. She a nice lady. They are going to a They going to a movie. movie.

Present tense is may be used regardless of person or number.

They are having fun. You are a smart man.

They is having fun. You is a smart man.

Person or number may not agree with past and present forms.

You are playing ball. They are having a picnic.

You is playing ball. They is having a picnic.

Present tense forms I have been here of auxiliary have for 2 hours. may be omitted. Past tense endings may be omitted.

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He got 2 box of apple. She give me 5 cent.

I been here for 2 hours. He done it again.

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Past tense was may be used regardless of number and person.

They were shopping. You were helping me.

They was shopping. You was helping me.

Multiple negatives may be used to add emphasis to the negative meaning.

We don’t have any more. I don’t want any cake. I don’t like Broccoli.

We don’t have no more. I don’t never want no cake. I don’t never like Broccoli.

None may be substituted for any.

She doesn’t want any.

She don’t want none.

In perfective I had the mumps constructions, been when I was 5. may be used to indicate that an action took place in the past.

I been had the mumps when I was 5. I been known her.

Done may be combined with a past tense form to indicate that an action was started and completed

He done fixed the stove. She done tried to paint it.

He fixed the stove. She tried to paint it.

The form be may Today she is be used as the main working. verb. We are singing.

Today she be working. We be singing.

Distributive be may be used to indicate actions and events over time.

He is often cheerful. She’s kind sometimes.

He be cheerful. She be kind.

A pronoun may be used to restate the subject.

My brother surprised me. My dog has fleas.

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Them may be substituted for those.

Those cars are antiques. Where’d you get those books?

Them cars, they be antique. Where you get them books?

Future tense is and are may be replaced by gonna.

She is going to help She gonna help us. us. They gonna be They are going to there. be there.

At may be used at the end of where questions.

Where is the Where is the house house? at? Where is the store? Where is the store at?

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I might have done it.

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Omission of plurals

Here are two piece of toast. I got 5 finger on each hand.

Omission of copula

He going home now. They eating.

Omission of possessive

I have Phuong pencil. Mom food is cold.

Omission of past tense morpheme

We cook dinner yesterday. Last night she walk home.

Past tense double marking

He didn’t went by himself

Double negative

They don’t have no books

Subject-verb-object relationship differences/omissions

I messed up it. He like.

Singular present tense omission or addition

You goes inside. He go to the store.

Wrong ordering of interrogatives

You are going now?

Misuse or omission of prepositions

She is in home. He goes to school 8:00.

Misuse of pronouns

She husband is coming She said her wife is here.

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Boy is sick. He went the home.

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You beach.

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She not take it. He do not have enough.

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She have no money. We been the store.

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1. Adjective comes after the noun.

The house green.

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Lang. Dis./Treatment: Specific Programs have little or no evidence; clinicians need to check the evidence before selecting a technique. Activity-Based Language Intervention. Treating language disorders with the help of various activities designed to promote language production; a classroombased approach in which each child has an individualized educational plan; activities are part of classroom activities and use natural antecedents and consequences. ● Plan activities that promote the production of specific language structures in children ● Plan activities around a theme if appropriate (e.g., activities related to going on a camping trip) ● Read stories, narrate events, and sing songs about the theme; include the various language targets for the children in the class ● Ask questions about the presented information ● Forget to give needed objects during activities, leading the child to request them ● Give needed items one at a time so the child requests each one ● Put needed things out of reach so the child asks for them ● Put needed things in a clear jar that the child can see but cannot open to gain access and hence has to request help ● Hide the child’s belongings to encourage requests ● Introduce novel items (e.g., wear a funny hat) and let those who talk about it wear it ● Pause during verbal or nonverbal actions so the child will request that you continue Bricker, D., & Cripe, J. (1992). An activity-based approach to early intervention. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes.

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Teach the Child to Vary the Expressions When Requested by a Listener Who Does Not Understand. Play the role of a listener who does not fully understand the expressions of the child: Ask the child to repeat Ask the child ‘‘What do you mean?’’ Tell the child ‘‘I do not understand’’ Negate a child’s utterance so the child will clarify by assertion (‘‘You did not go on the roller coaster 20 times did you?’’; the child might say ‘‘No, I went on it two times.’’) ● Model the clarified statement by modifying what the child said (‘‘You mean you went on the roller coaster two times, right?’’) ● Rephrase the child’s utterance into a question and say it with a rising intonation (‘‘You went on the roller coaster 20 times?’’) ● Model different ways of saying the same thing ● Ask the child to say it differently; reinforce varied phrases or sentences ● Periodically stop responding (e.g., to the child’s request) to prompt the child to rephrase ● Train parents to prompt the child to vary expressions and to reinforce the child for compliance ● Probe the generalized repair skill by presenting untrained messages ● Continue training until a set probe criterion (such as 90% accuracy in responding with the target skill) is met ● ● ● ●

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hold an object; establish eye contact with the child; look questioningly or expectantly) ● Do not speak for 15 seconds when the child approaches you or looks at you ● Model a mand or a name after the 15-second delay ● Give the object when the child imitates your modeling ● Give the object anyway when you have modeled 3 times and the child has not yet imitated Direct Language Treatment Approaches. Intervention approaches in which the clinician selects specific language targets, designs a treatment environment and implements the treatment; uses specific stimuli including modeling, prompting, and manual guidance; uses explicit reinforcement contingencies; expects the child to imitate or produce specific targets upon stimulation; moves through a planned sequence of treatment stages. Environmental Language Intervention Strategy (ELIS). A language intervention method for preschool children; developed and researched by J. D. McDonald and associates; a structured, direct treatment strategy; takes a semantic approach to teaching grammar; emphasizes generalized production at home; especially useful in training parents to conduct language stimulation sessions at home. ● Establish baselines of selected target language structures ● Structure treatment in three phases: imitation, conversation, and play ● Introduce the three procedures in the first three individual training sessions ● Train parents to record responses and administer the treatment program at home; train them in the Management of Behavioral Contingencies

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MacDonald, J. D., Blott, J. P., Gordon, K., Spiegel, B., & Hartman, M. (1974). An experimental parent-assisted treatment program for preschool language-delayed children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 39, 395–415.

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Lang. Dis./Treatment: Specific Programs tion Routines or Interactions (described later in this section); needs more evidence to support its practice. ● Select a common event the child has repeatedly experienced (e.g., shopping for a toy, eating in a restaurant, taking part in a birthday party) ● Describe the event verbally ● Assign roles to yourself and the child (e.g., customer and the store clerk) ● Use props to act out the event ● Reverse roles and act out the events; repeat until the various language structures of interest are rehearsed ● Evoke words and phrases as you act out the event by using pauses at junctures (using the Cloze Procedure) ● Evoke increasingly complex or longer description of events ● Vary the sequence and event elements (e.g., after having worked with the event shopping for a toy, have the child work with the event shopping for clothing) ● Violate expected events or sequences and let the child question you or correct you (e.g., go to the sales clerk without trying the clothes) Expansions. Expanding a child’s incomplete or telegraphic statements into grammatically more complete productions; part of Indirect Language Stimulation. ● Arrange a play situation that provides opportunities for language production ● Engage in parallel play with the child or take part in the child’s activities ● Expand the child’s structurally incomplete productions into more complete sentences (e.g., a boy says ‘‘baby cry’’ as he looks at a picture; you expand it into ‘‘The baby is crying.’’) ● Do not ask the child to imitate your expansions Expatiations. The same as Extensions. 333

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plural constructions (e.g., ‘‘I see two books here. The books have pictures. Here are two red cups. You can drink out of these cups. There are some hats. The hats are big.’’) ● Do not correct the child’s wrong productions ● Respond to the child’s nontarget responses without insisting on the correct response (e.g., the child says ‘‘The book is nice’’; the clinician says ‘‘Yes, the books are nice.’’) ● Continue until the child begins to produce the target structure Imitation of Child’s Utterances. Reversed Imitation in which the clinician imitates a child’s utterance during Indirect Language Stimulation; need more controlled clinical data to support its use. Incidental Teaching Method. A Naturalistic Child Language Teaching Method (described later in this section) that uses typical, everyday verbal interactions to teach functional communication skills; the child often initiates an interactional episode; the clinician turns such episodes into opportunities to teach language; emphasis is on communication; effective when the child and the teacher interact for extended periods of time and in natural settings (e.g., in special education classrooms, institutions for the retarded and the autistic); excellent method for parents to learn and use at home) ● Select certain functional communicative skills for teaching (e.g., requests) ● Arrange therapy situations such that the child is likely to initiate a conversational exchange (e.g., place attractive toys on a shelf the child can see but 335

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Hart, B. B., & Risley, T. R. (1982). How to use incidental teaching for elaborating language. Lawrence, KS: H & H Enterprises.

Indirect Language Stimulation. A collection of language stimulation procedures that are a part of playoriented approach to teaching language disorders; also called Child-Centered Approach (described earlier in this section); less structured and more naturalistic; thought to be especially suitable for children who are passive, reluctant, or unmotivated to communicate; based on the assumption that variables observed in normally developing children are effective clinical treatment strategies; needs more controlled evidence to support this approach. ● Arrange a play situation that provides opportunities for language production ● Choose the play materials that are relevant for the targeted response ● Let the child lead the interaction ● Engage in parallel play with the child or take part in the child’s activities 336

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Kirchner, D. (1991). Reciprocal book reading. A discoursebased intervention strategy for the child with atypical language development. In T. Gallagher (Ed.), Pragmatics of language: Clinical practice issues (pp. 307–332). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Whitehurst, G., Falco, F., Lonigan, C., Fischel, J., DeBrayshe, B., Valdez-Menchaea, M., & Caulfield, M. (1988). Accelerating language development through picture-book reading. Developmental Psychology, 24, 552–558.

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Rogers-Warren, A., & Warren, S. (1980). Mands for verbalization. Behavior Modification, 4, 230–245

Matching-to-Sample. A language teaching strategy; a child’s response is reinforced only if it matches a sample; helps generate rule-based responding based on physical or functional similarity; supported by some evidence. Teaching Matching-to-Sample on the Basis of Physical Similarity ● Display an array of stimuli in front of the child (e.g., a book, a ball, and a pencil) ● Hold a sample and show it to the child (e.g., a different book than the one displayed in front of the child) ● Ask the child to match it to the one displayed ● Reinforce the correct matching (e.g., pointing to the book) Teaching Matching-to-Sample on the Basis of Functional Similarity ● Display an array of stimuli in front of the child (e.g., a large blue sneaker, a small brown ball) ● Hold a sample that matches the function of one of the objects but the physical property of the 340

Lang. Dis./Treatment: Specific Programs other object displayed (e.g., a small brown shoe) and show it to the child ● Ask the child to match it to the one displayed ● Reinforce the correct matching (e.g., the blue sneaker) Milieu Teaching. A collection of child language intervention procedures that emphasize natural, functional, conversational communicative contexts for teaching language; a naturalistic child language teaching method; uses natural consequences as reinforcers; includes the Mand-Model and Incidental Teaching Method (described earlier in this section); supported by controlled evidence. Narrative Skills Training. A speaker’s description of events (stories, episodes) and experiences in a logically consistent, cohesive, temporally sequenced manner; analyzed in terms of a Story Grammar (described later in this section); an advanced language skill targeted during the final stages of intervention. ● Use the Event Structure (described earlier in this section) approach to give children experience in establishing Scripts (schemes of events) • play such scripts as grocery shopping, eating in a restaurant, birthday parties, camping trips, vacations, playing certain games, and so forth • play daily routine scripts (get children involved in daily activities) • repeatedly read or tell the same stories so the children memorize the words, temporal sequences, characters, and events • let the children act out the stories • let the children switch the roles on repeated scripts ● Ask children to narrate experiences as they play out scripts and assume different roles ● As you retell stories, pause before important phrases or critical descriptions so the children supply them 341

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Naturalistic Child Language Teaching Method. An approach that emphasizes natural, functional, conversational communicative contexts for teaching language to children; uses loose training structure; uses natural consequences as reinforcers; includes Incidental Teaching Method, Joint Action Routines or Interactions, Mand-Model, and Script Therapy (all described in this section). Parallel-Talk. Describing or commenting on what the child is doing during play activities; part of Indirect Language Stimulation. ● Arrange play activities designed to enhance opportunities for language production ● Play with the child ● Describe the child’s actions (e.g., ‘‘You are playing with the ball; you are bouncing the ball.’’) Peer Modeling. A child language intervention method in which the peers are trained to model the target skills for the child. ● Select a peer who agrees to help and is acceptable to the client 342

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To Promote Academic Learning in a Collaborative Model ● Ask the teacher to reduce academic demands that the child cannot meet or give more time for assignments ● Highlight important terms, issues, questions, definitions in a child’s textbook; ask the child to find the meanings of terms in a dictionary ● Work on listening, reading, writing, and other skills that are required in the classroom Kirchner, D. (1991). Reciprocal book reading. A discoursebased intervention strategy for the child with atypical language development. In T. Gallagher (Ed.), Pragmatics of language: Clinical practice issues (pp. 307–332). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Paul, R. (1995). Language disorders from infancy through adolescence. St. Louis, MO: C. V. Mosby. Ripich, D. N., & Creaghead, N. A. (1994). School discourse problems (2nd ed.). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.

Script Therapy. Language intervention procedure in which events and routines known to the child or made familiar by the clinician (Scripts) are used; procedures are similar to those under Event Structures and Joint Action Routines or Interactions (described earlier in this section); used in teaching advanced language skills including narrative skills; a script is usually not a written document although it may be in treatment; refers mostly to presumed ideas or a mental scheme a child may have about such common experiences as eating in a restaurant or grocery shopping; needs experimental support. ● Select language targets appropriate for the children to be taught (e.g., such action-object-locative constructions as ‘‘Put the doll in the box’’) ● Select routinized scripts for each target (e.g., scattered toys that the mother and the child sort and put away before bedtime)

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Paul, R. (1995). Language disorders from infancy through adolescence. St. Louis, MO: C. V. Mosby. Young, K. T., & Lombardino, L. J. (1991). The efficacy of script contexts in language comprehension intervention with children who have mental retardation. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 34, 845–857.

Self-Talk. Clinician’s description of her own activity as she plays with the child; a method of play-oriented, more or less structured, Indirect Language Stimulation. ● Arrange play activities designed to enhance opportunities for language production ● Play with the child ● Describe your own actions using language structures appropriate for the child (e.g., ‘‘I’m squeezing the rubber ducky here; see I’m squeezing.’’) Story Grammar. The structure of narratives that may be treatment targets for children with language disorders; a story grammar includes the following elements:

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Stein, N., & Glenn, C. (1979). An analysis of story comprehension in elementary school children. In R. Freedle (Ed.), New directions in discourse processing (Vol. 2, pp. 53–120). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Topic Initiation (Treatment for). The skill to start conversation with a new topic; a conversational skill; a pragmatic feature of language; a language treatment target; children with language disorders either fail to initiate topics or introduce inappropriate topics. ● Arrange a variety of stimuli that could trigger a new topic: objects, pictures, storybooks, topic cards (for children who can read), toys, structured play situations such as a kitchen and so forth ● Introduce one of the stimulus items or situations and draw the child’s attention to it (e.g., a picture of a family setting up a tent in a park) ● Wait for the child to initiate conversation about the picture and the story ● If the child does not initiate a topic, instruct the child to say something about the picture ● If the child does not initiate, prompt by beginning the story (‘‘They are setting up a. . . .’’)

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Language-Learning Disorders Language-Learning Disorders. Generally the same as language disorders; links language disorder to a general learning disorder that negatively affects academic learning; often used in special educational contexts; treatment procedures the same as those for Language Disorders in Children.

Language Problems. Generally the same as language disorders; a more general term that may be used interchangeably with language disorders; treatment procedures the same as those for Language Disorders in Children.

Language Stimulation by Parents.

Activities parents implement at home to stimulate language in infants and toddlers; may be the only recommendation for a child; may supplement or parallel clinicians’ treatment; supported by some evidence; more needed ● Assess the child and his or her family ● Assess the parents’ education, sophistication, time commitment, and motivation to conduct regular activities at home ● Design a language stimulation program for the child ● Test the program in the clinic for a few sessions to make sure it works ● Have parents observe your sessions ● Train parents in the effective methods; model the methods frequently ● Have parents conduct a session or two in the clinic ● Give feedback and refine their skills ● Train them to keep records of therapy that you can evaluate ● Give parents simple, clear written instructions ● Give parents video taped samples of treatment techniques ● Periodically assess the child and the parents’ sessions at home ● Suggest needed modifications and movement to higher levels of training ● Initiate formal treatment when your assessment indicates a need for it 351

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Laryngeal Cysts. Formation of small, fluid-filled sacs on the larynx, especially in the ventricle; often congenital; caused by accumulation of glandular secretion in submucosal; symptoms include swollen false (ventricular) folds; if enlarged, can result in hoarseness. ● Treatment is surgical removal of the cyst ● Follow-up voice therapy may be needed in some cases

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Laryngeal Leukoplakia. Appearance of white patches on the laryngeal mucosa; voice may be hoarse; may be premalignant. ● Modify client behavior to reduce or eliminate smoking ● Do not offer voice therapy for hoarseness as it is not effective

Laryngeal Stoma. An opening made into the trachea between the thyroid glands to allow for breathing in patients with laryngectomy.

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Laryngectomee Laryngectomee.

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Laryngectomy. Surgical removal of all or part of the larynx because of disease or trauma.

Treatment Procedures, Laryngectomy Preoperative Evaluation and Counseling ● Work as a member of the rehabilitation team ● In consultation with the surgeon, counsel the patient and the family about the effects of medical treatment on communication ● Invite and answer all questions from the patient and the family members; give answers that are consistent with advice from other professionals on the team ● Do not withhold information if the patient would like to hear it ● Obtain a sample of the patient’s speech and writing; make an assessment of client’s communication skills ● Describe various methods of speaking without a larynx; discuss communication options that may be preferable to the client; be consistent with the surgeon’s preferences and recommendations ● Reassure the patient that he or she will talk again by using new techniques ● Have the patient meet and speak with a rehabilitated Laryngectomee who has mastered Alaryngeal Speech Postoperative Management ● If no prior counseling, discuss the current condition of the patient and the prospects for new methods of communication ● Review the information provided during the preoperative counseling ● Discuss methods of Alaryngeal Speech (described later in this section) ● Demonstrate how electronic speech aids work 353

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Andrews, M. L. (1999). Manual of voice treatment: Pediatrics to geriatrics (2nd ed.). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Casper, J. K., & Colton, R. H. (1993). Clinical manual for laryngectomy and head and neck cancer rehabilitation. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Deem, J. F., & Miller, L. (2000). Manual of voice therapy (2nd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

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Laryngitis Sicca. Dryness and atrophy of the laryngeal mucosa, including the glandular structures with a rough, dry, and glazed look to the mucosa; causes include untreated chronic laryngitis, laryngeal radiation, and prolonged use of antihistamine drugs; also often described as dry voice; hoarseness, persistent cough, dry and tickly throat are common symptoms ● Treatment mostly medical (increased environmental humidity and use of lubricating agents) ● Do not recommend voice therapy

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Laryngocele ball games; natural period rest (one night’s sleep) may be adequate ● Reduce vocally abusive behaviors if they persist

Laryngocele. Air-filled or fluid-filled sacs that appear on the space between the true and false vocal folds; internal sacs remain within the thyroid cartilage; external sacs protrude above the thyroid cartilage; a combination has both the varieties; the basic condition is a congenital enlargement of the laryngeal ventricle, which may be worsened by straining, coughing, vocal abuse, playing wind instruments, and glassblowing; asymptomatic in infancy; such symptoms as hoarseness of voice, a bulge in the neck (with external laryngocele), and dysphagia may appear during adulthood. ● Treatment is medical and surgical ● Do not recommend voice therapy

Laryngomalacia. A common laryngeal anomaly characterized by excessive flaccidity of the supralaglottic larynx resulting in an epiglottis that is collapsed over the glottis during inspiration; the main symptom is inspiratory Stridor (noisy inspiration); voice is typically not affected.

Laryngopharyngeal Reflux. An upward flow of gastric juices into the laryngeal and pharyngeal structures; irritation caused by such flow; may cause such voice disorders as hoarseness, frequent throat clearing, and granulomas ● Treatment is medical (diet and medications) ● Do not recommend voice therapy

Laryngoplasty. Surgical treatment to improve phonation in people with vocal fold paralysis or weakness; involves medial displacement of vocal folds with the help of implant materials to promote better approximation.

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A brief treatment plan which describes shortterm goals and procedures; in case of student clinicians, approved by the clinical supervisor; in preparing lesson plans: ● Use Operational Definitions in writing treatment goals ● Give clear and brief description of procedures to be used

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Liquid Crystal Display (LCD). Flat panel display systems used in computers and other electronic devices (e.g., calculators); used in many devices of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC); contrasted with Cathoderay Tube Display (CRT); backlit displays that have a light source behind the screen are easier to read under varied lighting conditions; contrasted with Cathode-ray Display (CRD).

Lobectomy. Surgical excision of a lobe of an organ; removal of a lobe of lung, brain, thyroid, or liver.

Lobotomy. Surgical incision of the fibers of a lobe of brain. Logical Validity. Consistency of statements that do not violate rules of logic; treatment procedures that may be logically consistent; no assurance that the procedures have experimental support; contrasted with Empirical Validity.

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Loudness white noise; typically reflexive, but can be brought under voluntary control by instructions and reinforcement; a concomitant effect when masking noise is used to treat stuttering or voice disorders.

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Maintenance Strategy Maintenance Strategy. Methods designed to promote the production of treated communicative skills in natural environments and sustained over time; to be planned from the beginning of treatment; requires the extension of treatment to natural settings and training the client’s significant others to help evoke and reinforce the target skills; all aspects of treatment including stimulus variables, response characteristics, and response consequences should be manipulated to achieve maintenance.

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Hegde, M. N. (1998). Treatment procedure in communicative disorders (3rd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

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Mand-Model. A child language intervention method that uses components of Incidental Teaching Method; uses typical adult-child interactions in a play-oriented setting to teach functional communication skills; for procedures, see Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Mands.

A class of verbal behaviors that are triggered by a state of motivation; includes requests, commands, and demands; need to create a state of motivation to teach mands; often reinforced with primary reinforcers. ● Create a state of motivation: • arrange treatment around lunch or breakfast time so food may be used as a reinforcer (hunger is the state of motivation) • hold food in front of the child until the child asks for it 366

Manual Approach • place attractive toys on a high shelf and give them to the child only when requested • offer a food item the child does not like (the child should verbally refuse it) • eat something the child is fond of without offering it (the child should request it) • give a tightly closed jar with candy in it (the child should ask you to open it) ● Reinforce promptly with the displayed or held back item; remove promptly an aversive item presented when the child makes an appropriate response

Manual Approach.

A deaf educational approach that promotes the use of sign language and other manual modes of communication for young deaf children.

Manual Communication. A mode of nonverbal communication that may include sign language, finger spelling, gestures, and other forms of nonoral communication.

Manual Guidance.

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Matching. A method in which subjects of similar characteristics are placed in the experimental and control groups used to evaluate treatment effects; part of the Group Design Strategy. ● Find pairs of subjects with the same or similar characteristics (age, gender, severity of the disorder, socioeconomic status) ● Assign one of the pair to the experimental group and the other to the control group ● Match groups on the basis of group means if pair-wise matching is not possible (the two groups with the same average IQ, for instance)

Maximal Contrast Method. An articulation training method in which word pairs that contrast the most are used to train target phonemes; contrasted with Minimal Contrast Method in which word pairs that differ by one phoneme (e.g., pat, bat); in maximal contrast pair, the words may differ by several features or phonemic contrasts; treatment proce-

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Mechanical Corrective Feedback. A method to reduce incorrect responses in treatment; also known as Biofeedback; feedback is presented soon after an incorrect response is made; includes such feedback as provided on a computer monitor for incorrect responses (e.g., undesirable vocal pitch or intensity) and electromyographic feedback on muscle tension.

Melodic Intonation Therapy. An aphasia treatment program that uses musical intonation, continuous voicing, and rhythmic tapping to teach verbal expressions to patients with severe nonfluent aphasia with good auditory comprehension; see Aphasia; Treatment of Aphasia: Specific Technique or Programs for procedures.

Memory Impairments.

Impairments in remembering, recalling, or acting on the basis of remote or recent experiences; impairment in learning or retaining current events or recently experienced events; typically described in such mentalistic or mechanistic terms as storage and retrieval and a variety of presumed mental or neurological processes; nonetheless, almost always it is the presence or absence of actions and behaviors that lead to such presumptions, theoretical speculations, and analogical reasoning; found in many persons with a variety of neurologic and psychiatric disorders; of interest to speech-language pathologists is the memory impairments found in patients of Dementia and Traumatic Brain Injury and to some extent in patients with Aphasia.

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tions on daily activities (e.g., cooking, shopping, household chores); write prompts on index cards the patient frequently consults or follows during the execution of an activity ● Teach the client to use electronic memory devices, calendars, wristwatches with alarms, and so forth that help keep appointments and remind him or her of scheduled activities ● Teach the client to maintain a pocket notebook on events and activities and train him or her to use it regularly ● Teach family members and health care staff to remind and prompt activities; to help the patient make use of written instructions, memory logs, lists, electronic devices, and so forth; have the family members reinforce the client’s actual use of memory aids and the resulting improvement in behaviors Memory Log Books. A memory aid for patients with memory impairments; consists of written material that helps sustain skills or prompt actions; recommended for patients who have retained at least a basic level of reading and writing skills; not useful for patients who are confused, have leftsided neglect, or have severe uncorrected visual defect ● Design a simple log book that will contain only essential information ● Design a colorful cover for the book so it is easy to locate ● Designate a regular place where book will always be kept; let the health care staff or family members know the place ● Select functional information to be included in the log book; consult with the patient, staff, and the family members in making this selection ● Include the patient’s biographical information (name, age, address, phone number, family members’ names); the current moth, year, and the name of the hospital; names of 372

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Metronome-Paced Speech. A method used to slow down the rate of speech; the client is asked to pace a syllable or a word to each beat of a metronome; used in the treatment of stuttering, cluttering, and certain forms of dysarthria; see also Stuttering, Treatment; Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Techniques or Programs and Treatment of Dysarthria. ● Begin treatment with a slow beat that reduces the rate of speech so that stuttering or cluttering is markedly reduced or speech intelligibility of dysarthric clients improves ● Have the client practice slow speech until fluency or improved speech intelligibility are stabilized ● Fade the metronome by gradually increasing the rate of its beat until the speech rate and prosody approximate the normal; note that this step is especially needed for persons who stutter or clutter.

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Mixed Dysarthrias. A type of motor speech disorder that is a combination of two or more pure dysarthrias; the neuropathology is varied depending on the types of dysarthrias that are mixed; frequent causes include multiple strokes or multiple neurological diseases; speech disorders are varied and dependent on the types of pure dysarthrias that are mixed; see Treatment of Dysarthria: Specific Types.

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Structured opportunities to imitate a response when the clinician models it; trials are separated by brief time interval; response accuracy scored for each trial; faded when imitation is established; applicable in the treatment of almost all communication disorders. ● Place stimulus item in front of the client; show an object, or demonstrate an action ● Ask the predetermined question (e.g., ‘‘What is this?’’) ● Immediately model correct response (e.g., ‘‘Johnny, say. . . .’’) ● Wait a few seconds for the client to respond ● Consequate the response if it is a modeled training trial ● Do not consequate the response if it is a modeled baseline trial ● Record the response on the recording sheet ● Remove stimulus item ● Wait 2–3 seconds to signify end of trial Hegde, M. N. (1998). Treatment procedures in communicative disorders (3rd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Modeling. Clinician’s production of a target behavior for the client to imitate; needed when the clinician cannot evoke a response; used frequently in treating communicative disorders; much experimental evidence to support its use in treatment. ● Provide live or mechanically delivered model (audio or videotaped or computer presented)

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sented mechanically) Model frequently in the beginning stages of treatment Ask the client to imitate as closely as possible Reinforce the client for correct imitations or approximations Withdraw or fade modeling in gradual steps as the client’s imitative responses stabilize Mode of Response. Manner or method of a response; includes imitation, spontaneous production, conversational speech, and oral reading; useful in sequencing treatment targets: ● Teach a target behavior first in the imitative mode if necessary; model the target response ● Teach a target behavior in evoked mode, fading modeling ● Teach the target behavior in conversational mode ● Teach the target behaviors in oral reading if judged useful Modification of Treatment Procedures. See Treatment of Communicative Disorders: Procedural Modifications. Monterey Fluency Program. A treatment program for adults and children who stutter; behaviorally based; a fluency shaping program; for procedures see Stuttering, Treatment; Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Techniques or Programs. Moto-Kinesthetic Method. An articulation treatment method developed by Young and Stinchfield-Hawk; is similar to Phonetic Placement Method; emphasizes awareness of kinesthetic movement involved in articulation. ● Consider using the technique in the initial stages of treatment ● Manipulate the client’s articulators with your fingers (Manual Guidance) ● Provide visual stimulation of the movements with the help of a mirror Motor Speech Disorders. A group of speech disorders associated with neuropathology affecting the motor control ● ● ● ●

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Multi-infarct Dementia of speech muscles or motor programming of speech movements; includes Dysarthria and Apraxia of Speech.

Multi-infarct Dementia. A form of dementia caused by multiple strokes resulting in extensive cortical damage; characterized by rapidly progressing and irreversible intellectual, behavioral, and memory impairments; see Dementia.

Multiple Baseline Designs. A set of single-subject designs in which the effects of treatment are demonstrated by showing that untreated baselines did not change and that only the treated baselines did; practical designs to demonstrate treatment effects; has been extensively used in researching behavioral treatment procedures both in speech-language pathology and behavioral science; useful in integrating treatment research with service delivery; has three variations: across behaviors, settings, and subjects. Multiple Baseline Across Behaviors Design. A single subject design in which several behaviors are sequentially taught to show that a behavior changed only when brought under treatment and untreated behaviors remained unchanged; helps rule out extraneous variables leading to the conclusion that the treatment was effective. ● Select three or more target behaviors (e.g., three or more phonemes, grammatic morphemes) ● Establish baselines on all selected target behaviors on discrete trails and in conversational speech ● Teach the first behavior to a Training Criterion ● Repeat baselines on the remaining untreated behaviors ● Teach the next behavior and repeat the baselines on the remaining untreated behaviors ● Continue to alternate baselines and treatment until all the behaviors are trained ● Expect the untreated behaviors not to change; if changed, note that the experimental control is weakened and it is difficult to claim treatment effectiveness 379

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Multiple Causation. The philosophical position that most events, including communicative behaviors and their disorders, have several causes.

Multiple Phoneme Approach. An articulation treatment program that is appropriate for children with multiple misarticulations; a highly structured behaviorally based method with an emphasis on production training in which all target phonemes are treated in all treatment sessions; includes extensively detailed steps; see Articulation and Phonological Disorders; Treatment of Articulation and Phonological Disorders: Specific Approaches for the procedures.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS). A neurological diseases characterized by demyelination of cerebral white matter; symptoms include weakness, incoordination, and visual disturbances; associated with dysarthria.

Multisensory Approach. A method of teaching deaf children with an emphasis on all available sensory modalities, including residual hearing, vision, and touch.

Mutational Falsetto. Continuation of prepubertal voice after attaining puberty; voice is high-pitched.

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Narrative Skills Narrative Skills. A language skill in describing events in a sequential, chronologically correct, and logically consistent manner; treatment procedures described under Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs; Narrative Skills Training.

Nasal Assimilation. A phonological process in which nasal consonants are substituted for oral consonants (e.g., /n/ for /d/); see Articulation and Phonological Disorders for treatment approaches.

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Audible escape of air through the nose during speech; often found in children with cleft palate; reduction is a treatment target.

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Nativism. A philosophical position that humans are born with certain forms of knowledge that they need not learn through experience; basis for nativists’ assertion that children are born with knowledge of universal grammar, sentence structure, or phonological rules.

Natural Settings. Nonclinical settings where clients communicate for the most part; communication in such settings is always a final treatment target; in the case of infants and toddlers, treatment may be implemented in such settings; extending treatment to such settings is essential to promote response maintenance.

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Neck Brace. A brace around the neck used to stabilize the weakened neck muscles; often used in treating clients with dysarthrias.

Negative Reinforcers. Aversive events that are removed, reduced, postponed, or prevented; responses that accomplish these increase in frequency; less useful than positive reinforcers in teaching communicative skills.

Neglect. Often described as left-sided neglect, it is the tendency to ignore or be not aware of the left visual field in patients who have suffered right hemisphere brain damage; a major symptom and treatment target in patients with Right Hemisphere Syndrome; in reading, the patient may ignore the left side of printed pages; may neglect his or her own left side of the body; may neglect left-sided auditory stimuli as well.

Neologism. Creation of new but meaningless words by patients with Aphasia.

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Connecting a branch of an undamaged nerve to a damaged nerve; a surgical treatment for certain dysarthric clients; a branch of the intact XIIth cranial nerve may be connected to the damaged VIIth cranial nerve to restore function and appearance.

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Non-SLIP (Non-Speech Language Initiation Program). A nonspeech communication program that uses the Premack-type, color-coded plastic shapes each associated with a word; developed and researched by Joseph Carrier, Jr.; the client learns to communicate by arranging them in sequence to form sentences; also used to promote oral language acquisition in initially minimally verbal children; used in teaching Augmentative Communication, GesturalAssisted (Aided). Nonverbal Communication. Modes of communication that do not involve spoken speech; use of gestures, signs,

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Nonverbal Corrective Feedback. A method used to reduce incorrect responses in treatment; feedback is presented soon after an incorrect response is made; includes various forms of gestures, hand signals, and facial expressions that suggest to the client that the response was wrong (e.g., the stereotypic sad face); a form of Corrective Feedback; often paired with Verbal Corrective Feedback.

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Normative Strategy Normative Strategy. An approach to selecting target behaviors for clients based on age-based norms and developmental sequences; often used in selecting target speech sounds and language structures for children; some clinicians question its relevance and assumptions; contrasted with Client-Specific Strategy. ● Assess the communicative behaviors of the child to determine potential treatment targets ● Select behaviors that the child should already have acquired based on the age-based norms ● Teach the selected behaviors in the normative sequence in which they are acquired ● Note that this is by no means the only approach to target behavior selection and sequencing ● Do not hesitate to experiment with different sequences that may not conform to the normative sequence

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Average (mean) performance of a typical group of persons on a selected test in its standardization process; frequently established with the method of cross-sectional sampling of a group of children; most common problems are small sample size and limited sampling of behaviors measured; frequently used in selecting treatment targets, especially for children with speech and language disorders.

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Obturator. A structure that helps close an opening; a prosthetic device that helps close a cleft of the hard palate; the device has a plate that covers the cleft.

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A type of articulation disorder; not producing the sound in required word positions; see Articulation and Phonological Disorders.

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Operant Aggression. Aggressive behavior directed against the source of an aversive stimulus; a potential undesirable sideeffect of punishment; contrasted with Elicited Aggression. ● A child may say ‘‘I hate you’’ when the clinician says ‘‘No’’ for an incorrect response ● A child may fight the clinician’s attempt to take a token away in a response cost procedure ● Note that to reduce operant aggression in treatment, use punishment procedures sparingly and use more positive reinforcement and discriminative reinforcement that may indirectly control undesirable behaviors Hegde, M. N. (1998). Treatment procedures in communicative disorders (3rd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

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Operant Level arranging reinforcing consequences; roughly the process and procedures by which most behaviors and skills are taught in treatment sessions.

Operant Level. The same as Baselines. Operational Definitions. Definition of variables in measurable terms. ● Specify the topographic aspects of the target behavior (e.g., production of /s/ in word-initial positions, phrases, sentences) ● Specify the mode in which the response will be measured (e.g., reading, conversational speech) ● Specify the stimuli and settings (e.g., when shown pictures, in the clinic, or at home) ● Specify the accuracy criterion (e.g., 90% correct)

Oral Approach. A method of educating children who are deaf; the approach emphasizes oral language skills as against manual communication; uses auditory training, amplification, and speech reading to learn and sustain oral language skills; contrasted with Manual Approach.

Oral Apraxia. Deficits in making movements unrelated to oral speech; a motor programming disorder due to neurological damage in the absence of muscle weakness or paralysis; see Apraxia.

Oral Language. A form of communication based on articulated speech and language; the most common form of communication in most societies; most disorders of communication treated are the disorders of oral language.

Oral Phase. A swallowing disorder in which the patient has difficulty making the tongue movement to initiate the voluntary aspect of the swallow and in passing the food over the base of the tongue; see Dysphagia.

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Organic Disorder. A disorder of communication or other behaviors for which there is a neurophysiological or anatomical basis; disorder due to some structural defect; examples include cleft palate speech, aphasia, dysarthria, and apraxia.

Orofacial Examination. An aspect of assessment done prior to initiating treatment; an examination of the structures of the face and mouth to detect their overall integrity and any deviations that may be present; see PGASLP for procedures.

Orthography. Study of alphabetic letters and their proper sequence in a given language; written representation of language.

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Pacing Pacing. A speech treatment procedure in which the rate of speech is reduced with rhythmic external stimulus to cue the production of syllables or words; used in the treatment of Aphasia and Dysarthria.

Pacing Board. A wooden board that has a series of colored slots that are separated by ridges; used in reducing the speech rate of clients with motor speech disorders; the speaker touches one slot for each word spoken.

Paired-Stimuli Approach. An articulation treatment method; uses correct production of sounds in a Key Word to teach correct production of the same sounds misarticulated in other words; procedures described under Articulation and Phonological Disorders; Treatment of Articulation and Phonological Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

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Palate Reshaping Prosthesis. An intraoral device that lowers the palatal arch by artificially increasing its bulk; may be designed with teeth to replace the missing teeth of the patient; helps the tongue with limited vertical movement to make contact with the hard palate to chew food.

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Palliative Treatment Palliative Treatment. Medical treatment that may reduce the intensity of some symptoms, increase the patient comfort level, but not cure the disease.

Palsy. Paralysis; see Cerebral Palsy. Pantomime.

A method of communication in which the speaker acts out a message by gestures and bodily movements; a target communication skills for some nonverbal or minimally verbal clients who can use gestures and bodily movements; unlike in other gestural systems, uses whole- as well as part-body movements; often more concrete and easier to understand than other gestures; used in teaching Augmentative Communication-Gestural (Unaided).

Papillomas. Wart-like growths on the larynx; thought to be of viral origin; may be life-threatening if they block the airway; may be a recurring condition; treatment is laser surgery, which also needs to be repeated; may need voice therapy to make the best possible use of the compromised larynx. ● Teach the client to achieve appropriate pitch and loudness; use techniques described under Voice Disorders; Treatment of Disorders of Loudness and Pitch. ● Teach proper respiration control; treat any other voice symptom with Specific Normal Voice Facilitation Techniques (described under Voice Disorders)

Paradigm of Treatment.

An overall philosophy or view-

point of treatment.

Paradoxical Effects.

Increase in response rates when a known response reduction procedure (e.g., time-out or verbal ‘‘No’’) is used; potential side-effect of punishment. ● Always watch for undesirable side-effects when using response reduction (punishment) procedures ● Terminate the punishment procedure when paradoxical effects are evident ● Always reinforce desirable target behaviors and minimize the use of response reduction procedures 397

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Parallel Talk ● Consider one of the Differential Reinforcement proce-

dures in which an undesirable response is indirectly reduced by reinforcing alternative desirable behaviors

Parallel Talk.

A child language treatment method; describing or commenting on what the child is doing during play activities; procedure described under Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Paraphasias.

Unintended word or sound substitutions; a symptom of Aphasia; a treatment target for patients with aphasia.

Paraplegia. Paralysis of the both the legs often due to spinal cord injury or disease.

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bers) to conduct informal treatment at home; to conduct maintenance activities to sustain treatment gains at home and other natural settings; see Language Stimulation by Parents; Maintenance Strategy; Peer Training.

Parkinson’s Disease. A progressive neurological syndrome associated with depigmentation of the substantia nigra, a midbrain structure functionally related to the basal ganglia; there is loss of ability to produce or store dopamine; symptoms include Tremor, Rigidity, depression, visuospatial disturbances, and Bradykinesia; irregular and less legible handwriting; soft, monotonous, and rapid speech; crowded word productions without the usual pauses between phrases; general management procedures described under Dementia; in addition, consider the following suggestions: ● Reduce the rate of speech to increase intelligibility ● Use a Pacing Board to monitor the speech rate ● Decrease monotonous tone of voice ● Increase vocal intensity (subject to improvement of chest musculature functioning) 398

Partial Assimilation ● Increase pauses between phrases ● Monitor the changes (if any) that occur with specific med-

ication such as Levodopa (L-Dopa)

Partial Assimilation. A characteristic of speech articulation in which a sound takes on the properties of its neighboring sounds.

Partial Modeling. Withdrawing modeling of complete sentences in gradual steps; a method of Fading. ● Initially model complete sentences for the client to imitate (e.g., ‘‘The book is on the table.’’) ● Drop the last word when it is time to fade modeling (e.g., ‘‘The book is on the. . . .’’) ● Drop additional words, one word at a time, on subsequent trials (‘‘The book is on. . . .’’; ‘‘The book is. . . .’’; ‘‘The book. . . .’’; etc.)

Peer Modeling. A child language intervention method in which peers are trained to model the target skills for the child client; procedure described under Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs. ● Select a peer who agrees to help and is acceptable to the client ● Have the peer observe your treatment sessions ● Describe the target behaviors, modeling and imitation sequence, and reinforcement procedures ● Let the peer model and reinforce the child’s productions in your presence ● Refine the peer’s skills in modeling the target behaviors ● Ask the peer to submit recorded language samples that document appropriate modeling outside the clinic ● Periodically assess the results of peer modeling and provide additional training to the peer

Peer Training. Training peers of clients to evoke and reinforce target behaviors in natural settings; a Maintenance Strategy. 399

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P-E Segment ● Ask the peers to initially observe your treatment sessions ● Describe the target skills the client is being taught ● Let the peers count the occurrence of the skill along with

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● Give them feedback on their counting ● Train the peers to prompt, evoke, model, and reinforce the

target communication skill Have peers conduct a session in your presence Give peers feedback and refine their skills Give peers simple, clear written instructions Give peers a sample videotape of treatment procedures Ask peers to monitor the target skills in natural settings Ask peers to audio record a monitoring session outside the clinic or submit data recorded on paper ● Periodically review data submitted ● Periodically assess the client who is taught by the peers ● Initiate clinical treatment if peer training is not effective or their training cannot be improved ● ● ● ● ● ●

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the pharynx and the esophagus; muscle fibers from the cricopharyngeus, esophagus, and inferior constrictor blend at this site to create a sphincter that can reduce the crosssectional area of the esophagus.

Penetrating (Open-Head) Injury. An injury where the skull is perforated or fractured and the Meninges are torn or lacerated.

Perceptual Training. The same as Auditory Discrimination Training; in articulation treatment, it is assumed that clients should first learn to discriminate between speech sounds others produce before learning to produce them; in language treatment, it is assumed that clients should comprehend language structures before learning to produce them; both assumptions are questioned by some clinicians; the method needs more evidence. 400

Peristalsis In Articulation Treatment

● Present correct and incorrect productions of the target

sounds alternatively

● Ask the child to judge each production as correct or

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● Do not ask the child to produce the sounds ● Move to production training when the client can consis-

tently discriminate your correct and incorrect presentations

In Language Treatment ● ● ● ● ●

Teach nonverbal responses to verbal stimuli Ask the child to show objects or pictures you name Ask the child to follow directions and commands Do not ask the child to produce oral language Move to production training of a given language structure when the client can comprehend the meaning of that structure when spoken

Peristalsis. Constricting and relaxing movements of a tubular structure (such as the pharynx) to move its contents (such as food in the pharynx); pharyngeal peristalsis may be disordered in patients with Dysphagia.

Perseveration. Tendency to persist with the same response even though the stimulus has changed; often seen in patients with brain injury.

Pharyngeal Flap Operation. A surgical procedure designed to reduce hypernasality in persons with repaired cleft or in those with weak or paralyzed soft palate (as in flaccid dysarthria); to improve velopharyngeal closure, the surgeon: ● Cuts a flap of tissue from the posterior pharyngeal wall ● Brings the flap down or raises it up (depending on how the flap is cut) ● Attaches the flap to the velum to provide extra muscular mass that helps achieve velopharyngeal closure ● Leaves an opening on either side of the flap to allow breathing, nasal drainage, and production of nasal sounds 401

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Pharyngeal Phase of Swallowing Pharyngeal Phase of Swallowing. A normal swallow stage in which the food is propelled through the pharynx and into the pharyngeal-esophageal (P-E) segment; may be disordered due to delayed or absent swallowing reflex; see Dysphagia.

Pharyngoplasty.

A surgical procedure designed to reduce hypernasality in persons with repaired cleft or in those with weak or paralyzed soft palate (as in flaccid dysarthria); in this procedure, the surgeon ● Injects Teflon or other substance (e.g., Dacron wool or silicone gel bag) into the posterior pharyngeal wall ● Creates a bulge through such injection in the pharyngeal wall to help close the velopharyngeal port

Phonate. To produce vocal sound. Phonatory Disorders. Disorders of phonation due to laryngeal structural problems or habitual patterns.

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sounds whose individual productions may vary from production to production but nonetheless perceived as the same.

Phonemics. Study of the sound system and sound differences in a language.

Phonetic Derivation.

The use of Shaping procedures (progressive approximation) to teach correct articulation to clients who do not imitate the clinician’s productions; in using this procedure: ● Break the target sound production into its simpler components (e.g., teaching the production of /m/ by first having the client put the lips together, a simplified component of the total response) ● Teach the next component that will move the sequence in the right direction (e.g., add humming to the closed-lip posture) 402

Phonetic Placement Method ● Teach other response components to achieve the total re-

sponse (e.g., opening the mouth while humming through the nose, resulting in ma) ● Have the client practice the integrated response (e.g., mommy)

Phonetic Placement Method. An articulation treatment method; used when the client cannot imitate the modeled sound production; uses instruction, physical guidance, and visual feedback on how target sounds are produced; often used as a component of a comprehensive treatment program. ● Describe how the target sound is produced ● Demonstrate how the sound is produced ● Show the placement of articulators ● Give maximum visual feedback; use a mirror and a drawing of articulatory placements; use palatograms and breath indicators ● Show the differences between correct and incorrect productions of the same sound ● Help position the tongue of the client with tongue blades ● Use your fingers to manipulate and correctly position the client’s articulators ● Let the client feel the presence and absence of laryngeal vibrations ● Reinforce correct responses

Phonetics.

The study of speech sounds, their production, acoustic properties, and the written symbols that represent speech sounds.

Phonological Disorders. Multiple errors of articulation that form patterns based on Distinctive Features or Phonological Processes; the treatment target is to eliminate phonological processes.

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Phonological Processes Phonological Processes. Multiple ways in which children simplify adult production of speech sounds; these include such categories of processes as Deletion Processes, Substitution Processes, and Assimilation Processes; persistent processes in children are targets of intervention; treatment is directed against eliminating a phonological process; see Articulation and Phonological Disorders, Treatment of Articulation and Phonological Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Phonology. The study of speech sounds, their patterns and sequences, and the rules that dictate sound combinations to create words.

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Productions that contain two or more words; grammatically incomplete, hence not sentences; treatment targets for language impaired children. ● Teach a few First Words ● Create two-word phrases out of words the child already has learned (e.g., such nouns and adjectives as big man or small box) ● Teach them with either Indirect Language Stimulation or Direct Language Treatment Approaches

Physical Prompts.

Visual signs or gestures given before a response is produced to demonstrate and prompt correct articulation (e.g., showing a lifted tongue tip just before the child attempts to produce a /t/; showing lip closure to prompt the production of a bilabial sound).

Physical Setting Generalization.

Production of trained responses in a setting not used in training; an important clinical goal; measured on a Probe; typically not reinforced. ● Select stimuli for treatment targets from the client’s home ● Use common stimuli found in nonclinical settings ● Give training in varied physical settings such as outside the treatment room, outside the clinic building, and in 404

Physical Stimulus Generalization other places where target behaviors may be practiced in conversational speech in a relatively subtle manner

Physical Stimulus Generalization. Production of trained responses in the presence of untrained stimuli because of their similarity to trained stimuli; an important treatment goal; typically measured on a Probe; usually not reinforced. ● Use varied stimuli in training ● Use stimuli from the client’s home ● Prefer objects to pictures ● Use multiple exemplars to train each target behavior ● Probe frequently with the help of untrained stimuli to evaluate physical stimulus generalization ● Provide additional training until the Probe Criterion is met

Pic Symbols. A set of Pictogram Ideogram Communication (Pic) symbols drawn in white on a black background; used in teaching Augmentative Communication, GesturalAssisted (Aided).

Picture Communication Symbols.

A large collection of pictures that represent words, phrases, sentences, social exchanges widely used in Augmentative and Alternative Communication; most symbols are transparent (meaning readily apparent).

Picture Exchange Communication System. A nonverbal communication system in which the client picks a picture and hands it to a caregiver or therapist who the gives what the picture implies or depicts; has been used in teaching communication to autistic children; children who cannot point to pictures to indicate what they want may nonetheless pick and hand a picture to someone to achieve the same effect; a transitional system eventually leading to verbal communication training.

Picsyms. A set of symbols containing line drawings that can be used to teach nonoral expression of nouns, verbs, prepositions, and so forth; each symbol also is associated with a 405

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Pictographic Symbols printed English word; an open-ended system to which the clinician can add her or his own drawings; used in teaching Augmentative Communication, Gestural-Assisted (Aided).

Pictographic Symbols. Pictorial representation of objects and events; easier to learn than abstract symbols; used in teaching Augmentative Communication, Gestural-Assisted (Aided).

Pneumatic Device for Alaryngeal Speech. Sound source for patients with laryngectomy that uses the patient’s exhaled air; a nonelectronic device, one end of which is placed in the mouth and the other end is placed over the stoma; a vibrating reed in between provides sound that the patient articulates into speech; contrasted with Electronic Devices for Alaryngeal Speech.

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Protruding, soft, fluid-filled growths on the inner margin of the vocal folds; result of vocal abuse, often from a single abusive episode; often unilateral; may be sessile (broad-based) or pedunculated (the mass of the polyp is connected to the vocal fold by a stalk-like structure); associated with hoarseness and breathiness; surgically removed; see Voice Disorders; Treatment of Vocally Abusive Behaviors. ● Identify the vocally abusive behaviors ● Reduce vocally abusive behaviors ● Teach appropriate vocal behaviors (e.g., gentle onset of phonation, soft speech)

Population. A large, defined group with certain characteristics identified for the purposes of a study; part of the Group Design Strategy of research; a representative Sample is randomly drawn from the population. ● Identify a large group of persons with defined characteristics (e.g., persons who stutter; people who have aphasia with additional defined characteristics relative to age, gender, severity, and so forth) ● Randomly draw a sample of subjects needed for the study 406

Positive Practice ● Assign them randomly to an experimental group and a

control group in a treatment research study

Positive Practice. Required and unreinforced practice of a desirable behavior following Restitution for an undesirable behavior; a Direct Methods of Response Reduction; a part of Imposition of Work. Positive Reinforcers. Events that, when presented immediately after a response is made, increase the future probability of that response; an effective method to increase the frequency of target communicative behaviors; extensively researched with a variety of clinical populations; commonly used in communication training. ● Select potential reinforcers after consulting with the client, the family, or both ● Present potential reinforcer immediately after the correct response is made ● Use a Continuous Reinforcement schedule in the beginning and an Intermittent Reinforcement schedule subsequently ● Prefer Conditioned Generalized Reinforcers, (e.g., Tokens) to Primary Reinforcers ● Always use verbal praise (even when you use other kinds) ● Use a different event when the one selected does not increase the response rate ● Call an event a reinforcer only when it increases a response rate Postreinforcement Pause. A period of no responding after receiving a reinforcer; markedly evident in Fixed Interval Schedule of reinforcement. Posttests. Measures of behaviors established after completing an experimental or routine teaching program; compared with Pretests; in a group design study, help rule-out the influence of extraneous variables. Postural Strategies. Techniques of manipulating body positions, especially head and neck positions to prevent aspiration in patients with dysphagia; see Dysphagia. 407

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Pragmatics Pragmatics. The study of social use of language and the rules of such usage.

Pragmatic Structures. Aspects of appropriate language use in naturalistic communicative contexts; targets of language intervention; include such skills as Conversational Repair; Eye Contact; Narrative Skills, Topic Initiation, Topic Maintenance; and Turn Taking (all described under Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs).

Premack-Type Symbols. Plastic shapes or tokens designed by David Premack to teach communication to chimpanzees; Noniconic symbols that may be used to teach communicative skills to nonspeech clients; used in teaching Augmentative Communication Gestural-Assisted (Aided).

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stutter and those who exhibit hard glottal attacks; includes a slight exhalation before initiating phonation; for procedures, see Stuttering Treatment, Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Techniques or Programs; Airflow Management; and Voice Disorders; Treatment of Voice Disorders; Specific Normal Voice Facilitating Techniques; Whisper-Phonation Method.

Pretests.

Measures of behaviors established before starting an experimental or routine teaching program; compared with posttests; in a group design study, help rule out the influence of extraneous variables.

Primary Reinforcers.

Reinforcers whose effects do not depend on past learning; often fulfill biological needs; contrasted with Conditioned, Secondary, or Social Reinforcers; also known as unconditioned reinforcers. ● Use primary reinforcers with infants, toddlers, and other children who do not respond well to Social Reinforcers

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Principles (of Treatment) ● Use with children who are mentally retarded, those who

are minimally verbal, and those who are autistic

● Use with persons who have brain injury in the initial

stages of treatment

● Always combine with social reinforcers ● Gradually withdraw primary reinforcers and keep the cli-

ents on social reinforcers

Principles (of Treatment). Empirical rules from which treatment procedures are derived.

Probes.

Procedures used to assess generalized production of clinically established responses; administered every time a few exemplars are trained to assess generalized productions; may be Intermixed Probes, Pure Probes, or Conversational Probes.

Probe Criterion. A rule that specifies when to terminate training at a given topographic level of training or on a specified target behavior. ● A 90% correct Intermixed Probe response rate at each topographic level of training may suggest that the training may be moved to the next level (e.g., from the word to the phrase level) ● A 90% correct Pure Probe response rate for a behavior at the conversational level may suggest that the behavior is sufficiently trained and that the training may move on to another target behavior.

Probe Procedure.

Procedure to assess generalized production of target behaviors; see Intermixed Probes and Pure Probes for procedures.

Probe Recording Sheet. A prepared sheet for recording probe response rates. ● Design and use a probe recording sheet similar to the following; modify as found necessary

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Procedures of Treatment

Name of the Client

Treatment Target

Clinician

Date Probe Recording Sheet Responses: ⫹ (Correct), ⫺ (Incorrect), 0 (No response)

Stimulus Items 1. 2. 3. 4.

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nician performs to effect changes in client behaviors; actions of clinicians; contrasted with Treatment Targets; in describing treatment procedures: ● Specify what you ought to do to achieve the treatment target ● Specify the target communication skills ● Describe the stimulus conditions you need to arrange ● Specify the kinds of feedback you should give to the client under the differing conditions of correct, incorrect, and lack of responses ● Clarify how you measure the skills during treatment to document progress ● Describe how you plan to promote generalized productions and maintenance over time and across situations ● Specify the follow-up and booster treatment procedures

Production Training. Treatment designed to teach a client to produce a specified speech or oral language target; contrasted with Perceptual Training or Auditory Discrimination Training; emphasis is on what the client ought to say rather than just listen or respond nonverbally. ● Model the target skills and ask the client to imitate your productions 410

Prognosis ● Fade modeling when imitation is established ● Evoke the target skills by appropriate questions and other

devices

Prognosis. A statement about the future course of a disorder under specified conditions, which typically include treatment or no treatment; good prognosis implies that the patient will recover from the clinical condition (with or without treatment, usually specified).

Programmed Learning.

A method of teaching skills in a systematic manner with immediate positive and corrective feedback using operant conditioning principles; used in the treatment of language and articulation disorders.

Program of Treatment. An overall description of target behaviors, treatment variables, measurement procedures, generalization measures, maintenance strategies, follow-up, and so forth.

Progressive Assimilation.

A phonological process in which a sound takes on the properties of a preceding sound; elimination of such processes is a treatment goal in articulation and phonological treatment; see Articulation and Phonological Disorders.

Prolonged Speech. A stuttering treatment target; syllables are prolonged to reduce the rate of speech; for procedures see Stuttering, Treatment; Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Prompts. Special stimuli that increase the probability of a response; prompts may be verbal or nonverbal. ● Prompt promptly, as the client hesitates (e.g., in treating naming in a client with aphasia: ‘‘What is this?’’ ‘‘The word starts with a /t/.’’) ● Prompt more frequently in the beginning to reduce errors ● Prefer a subtle or short prompt to ones that are loud or long (e.g., in treating a person who stutters to speak slowly: ‘‘Slower’’ instead of ‘‘Speak at a slower rate.’’) 411

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Prosthesis ● Prefer a gesture to a verbal prompt (e.g., in treating a per-

son who stutters to speak slowly: make a hand gesture to suggest a slower rate) ● Use Partial Modeling as a prompt ● Fade prompts as the responses become more consistent

Prosthesis. A device fashioned for individual clients and fitted to compensate for deficient or deformed structure to improve their function.

Pseudobulbar Palsy. Paralysis of the muscles of mastication, articulation, and swallowing caused by bilateral brain damage; so called because the symptoms mimic those caused by brainstem damage.

Pseudo Supraglottic Swallow. A procedure to protect the airway during swallowing; used with patients who have dysphagia. ● Ask the patient to inhale, and hold the breath ● Swallow ● Cough

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Public Law (P.L.) 94-142.

The Education of All Handicapped Children Act passed in 1975 by the U.S. Congress and signed into law; mandates appropriate special education, speech, language, and hearing services to all handicapped children in the age range of 3 and 18 years; extended to age range 3 to 21 in 1988; requires Individualized Education Plans for all handicapped children and education in least restrictive environment.

Public Law (P.L.) 99-457. The 1986 Amendment to the Education of the Handicapped Act passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law; mandates services to infants and toddlers required comprehensive state plans to educate handicapped youngsters.

Public Law (P.L.) 101-336. The Americans With Disabilities Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1990 and signed 412

Public Law (P.L.) 101-431 into law; prohibits discrimination against disabled individuals in employment settings; requires telephone relay services for the hearing impaired; requires handicapped access to public buildings.

Public Law (P.L.) 101-431. The Television Decoder Circuitry Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1990 and signed into law; requires television manufacturers to include closed-caption circuitry in televisions (13 inch or larger screens).

Public Law (P.L.) 101-476.

The Education of All Handicapped Children Act Amendments under the new title, Individuals With Disabilities Education Act passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law in 1990; reauthorizes the original P.L. 94-142; additionally requires transition services to disabled students 16 years and older; also requires the use of assistive technology in educating children with disabilities.

Public Law (P.L.) 103-218. The Technology Related Assistance for Individuals With Disabilities Act Amendments passed by the U.S. Congress in 1994 and signed into law; encourages states to develop consumer access to assistive technology devices and services.

Public Law (P.L.) 105-17. The Individuals With Disabilities Act passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law in 1997; promotes ethnocultural considerations in assessing and treating individuals with disabilities; requires parental involvement in the education of their disabled children.

Pull-Out Therapy Model. A special education service delivery model in which children are taken out of the classroom for special services, including speech-language services.

Punisher. A stimulus or a consequence that, when delivered soon after a response is made, is likely to reduce that response; a response-reducing consequence. 413

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iors by response-contingent presentation or withdrawal of stimuli; includes Direct Methods of Response Reduction and Indirect Methods of Response Reduction. ● Minimize the use of response reduction procedures ● Simplify the target response and shape it to avoid or reduce the use of punishers ● Let the positive:corrective ratio be in favor of the positive (more reinforcers than punishers) ● Prefer indirect methods of response reduction in which you replace undesirable behaviors with desirable behaviors that you positively reinforce ● When the client’s correct responses do not increase, change your treatment procedures ● Watch for potential undesirable Side-Effects of Punishment ● Note that Time-Out and Response Cost are especially effective procedures in reducing various disorders of communication and other undesirable behaviors children might exhibit during treatment sessions Pure Probes. Procedures to assess generalized production with only untrained stimulus items; to be administered when the client has met the intermixed probe criterion, preferably toward the end of treatment: contrasted with Intermixed Probes in which trained and untrained items are alternated. ● Prepare a Probe Recording Sheet on which you have at least 10 untrained exemplars (untrained words, phrases, or sentences that contain the target sound or language feature) ● Present each exemplar on discrete trials ● Provide no reinforcement or corrective feedback ● Calculate the percent correct probe response rate ● Give additional training when an adopted probe criterion is not met (e.g., 90% accuracy) ● Move on to next level of training or to new target behaviors when the criterion is met 414

Pushing Approach Pushing Approach.

A voice therapy procedure to promote better vocal fold approximations in clients who have weakened or paralyzed; for procedures, see Voice Disorders, Specific Normal Voice Facilitating Techniques.

Pyramidal System.

A bundle of nerve fibers that originate in the motor cortex of the brain and travel to the brainstem; upper motor neuron pathways; deliver motor impulses for voluntary movements; has two tracts: corticobulbar and corticospinal; damage to the system can cause various neurogenic speech disorders; see Dysarthria.

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Quadriplegia. Paralysis of all four limbs. QWERTY. The standard arrangement of letters on keyboards for typewriters and computers and certain Augmentative and Alternative Communication input devices.

Question. Interrogative forms designed to request information; treatment targets for clients with language disorders; types of questions include: ● Intonation questions: Essentially declarative statements (not syntactically correct questions) that serve as questions because of their unique intonation ● Tag questions: Declarative expressions with an interrogative tag added at the end (e.g., You can do it, can’t you?’’) ● Wh-questions: Question forms that begin with who, what, which, when, where, whose, why, and how ● Yes-No questions: Question forms that require either a Yes or a No as the response

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Random Assignment Random Assignment. A method of assigning participants selected for a study to either the experimental or the control group without the experimenter bias; used in treatment research; part of the Group Design Strategy. ● Select participants randomly ● Assign a number to each subject ● Assign every even-numbered subject to one group and every odd-numbered subject to the other group

Random Selection. A method of selecting subjects (clients) to evaluate treatment effects or efficacy; each potential subject has an equal chance of being selected for the study, hence no experimenter bias in subject selection; need a large number of potential subjects for the method to work; part of the Group Design Strategy. ● Identify a large number of potential subjects ● Assign a number to each subject ● Select the required number of subjects randomly (e.g., every second, every fourth, or every tenth person)

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ments can occur; limited range of speech muscle movements may cause speech disorders; problem found in some patients with Dysarthria.

Rate Reduction. A rate of speech slower than the normal or below a client-specific baserate; a target in the treatment of several communicative disorders including Stuttering, Cluttering, and Dysarthria.

Ratio Strain.

Reduction in response rate due to a sudden thinning of reinforcement as when the clinician shifts from continuous reinforcement to a FR10 (every 10th response is reinforced) . ● Start with continuous reinforcement for target responses ● Move to a FR2 or FR3 (every second or third response is reinforced) ● Increase the ratio of reinforcement gradually 420

Rationalism Rationalism. A philosophical position that reason and intellect are the source of knowledge, not sensory experience; closely related to Nativism; contrasted with Empiricism.

Rebuses. Pictures of objects and persons used in teaching Augmentative Communication Gestural-Assisted (Aided); different from just pictures in that words and grammatic morphemes are combined with rebuses; Iconic easier than Noniconic symbol systems to learn.

Recast. A child language intervention procedure in which the clinician expands a child’s utterance type into a different type of sentence; procedure described under Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Recombinative Generalization. A form of generalization of taught behaviors in which various combinations of new stimuli evoke differential responding; varied and novel sentences formed out of previously taught words exemplify recombinative generalization.

Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Resection. A surgical treatment procedure for adductor spasmodic dysphonia; the recurrent laryngeal nerve is unilaterally resectioned to paralyze one of the folds to prevent hyperadduction; voice therapy may be needed following this operation.

Reduced Modeling. The same as Partial Modeling. Regressive Assimilation. An articulatory phenomenon in which a sound takes on the properties of a following sound.

Regulated Breathing. A stuttering treatment target; includes inhalation, a slight exhalation before initiating phonation, and reduced rate of speech; for procedures see Stuttering, Treatment; Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Techniques or Programs. 421

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Reinforce Reinforce. Strengthen and increase behaviors by arranging immediate consequences for them; an important action clinicians perform in teaching target responses to children as well as adults; see Reinforcers.

Reinforcement.

A method of selecting and strengthening behaviors of individuals by arranging consequences under specific stimulus conditions; widely used in the treatment of communicative disorders; see Reinforcers.

Reinforcement Priming. Seeking reinforcers for one’s own behaviors; useful strategy for the client to learn in getting parents, teachers, peers, and others to notice the production of clinically established behaviors in natural settings and thus get reinforced; part of Maintenance Strategy. ● Teach others to reinforce the client for the production of target behaviors established in the clinic ● Teach the client to draw attention to his or her desirable communicative behaviors from others ● Verify that others are indeed reinforcing the client when attention is drawn to the production of target behaviors (e.g., have the client or the family members maintain and present records of reinforcement delivery)

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Reinforcement Withdrawal. Taking away reinforcers to decrease a response; one of the Direct Methods of Response Reduction; includes Response Cost and Time-Out.

Reinforcers. Events that follow behaviors and thereby increase the future probability of those behaviors; widely used in treating communicative disorders. ● Select either the Primary, Secondary, Conditioned Generalized, Informative Feedback, or High Probability Behaviors to reinforce clinical targets ● Reinforce initially on a Continuous Reinforcement schedule ● Switch to an Intermittent Reinforcement schedule later ● Always use verbal (conditioned) reinforcers in conjunction with other types 422

Reinke’s Edema ● Teach the client’s significant others to reinforce the skills

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Reinke’s Edema. Also known as polypoid degeneration; sausage-shaped, grayish-pink or red projection-like growth on vocal fold margins; typically bilateral; the floppy-appearing folds may be described as elephant ears; severe and persistent hoarseness is the vocal symptom; cause is excessive smoking and alcohol abuse. ● Treatment is surgical removal of the growth; performed on one fold at a time; if normal voice is restored, the second operation may be avoided ● Voice treatment involves modifying smoking and drinking behaviors

Reliability. Consistency with which the same event is repeatedly measured; important in clinical work and clinical research; includes inter- and intraobserver reliability. Interobserver Reliability. The extent to which two (or more) observers agree in measuring an event. ● Measure a behavior of interest with its location identified for a unit-by-unit analysis (count not only the behaviors being measured, but also their locations in transcribed speech samples) ● Have another trained observer measure in the same manner (unit-by-unit analysis) ● Score the total number of locations for which both of you agreed for an Agreement count (A) ● Count the total number of locations for which only one of you, not both of you scored the behavior (stuttering, pitch breaks, articulatory error) for a Disagreement count (D) ● Calculate the unit-by-unit Agreement Index by using the following formula: A/(A⫹D) ⫻ 100 Intraobserver Reliability. The extent to which the same observer repeatedly measures the same event consistently. 423

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Response Class. A group of responses created by the same or similar contingencies; functionally, but not necessarily structurally, similar responses; good treatment targets because there is generalized production within a class and discrimination between classes.

Response Complexity. Different topographic levels of a target behavior; structural complexity of communicative behaviors typically create a sequence of treatment. ● Teach words before phrases ● Teach phrases before sentences ● Teach sentences before conversational speech

Response Cost. A direct response reduction strategy in which the production of each response scheduled for reduction results in the loss of a reinforcer. In the Earn and Lose variety, clients earn a token for every correct response and lose one for every incorrect response. In the Lose-Only variety, the client who receives unearned tokens at the beginning of a session loses one for every incorrect response.

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Response Generalization. Production of unreinforced (new, untrained) responses that are similar to trained responses; a goal of treatment; typically achieved through various strategies designed to promote Generalization because stimulus generalization in language training also involves response generalization. Response Mode Generalization. Production of unreinforced responses in a mode not involved in training. ● Train skills in a certain mode (e.g., fluency in oral reading) ● Probe to assess generalized production (fluency in conversational speech) ● If there is no generalization, train the skills in that mode (fluency in conversational speech) Response Recording Sheet. A prepared sheet for recording correct, incorrect, and no responses given in treatment sessions. ● Design and use a response recording sheet similar to the following; modify as necessary

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Response Reduction Strategies Response Reduction Strategies. A collection of procedures that help decrease undesirable responses; include Direct Methods of Response Reduction and Indirect Methods of Response Reduction.

Response Substitution. Increase in an undesirable behavior when another behavior is reduced; exemplified by increased frequency of wiggling in the chair when a child’s disruptive hand movements are reduced by a response reduction method. ● Apply a response reduction strategy to the newly emerged undesirable behavior ● Apply such strategies sequentially if you have to

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A training target in the Paired Stimuli Approach to treating articulation disorders (described under Articulation and Phonological Disorders; Treatment of Articulation and Phonological Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs); the client is asked to produce a key word and a target word as a single response unit (e.g., this-bus); the client earns one reinforcer only by correctly producing the target sound in both of the words.

Restitution. An element of overcorrection in which the person eliminates the effects of his or her misbehavior and then improves the situation; described under Imposition of Work. ● Ask the child who disorganizes your stimulus materials to reorganize them ● Next, ask the child to organize the toys on the floor (the disorganized toys were not the child’s making)

Reversed Imitation. Clinician’s imitation of a child’s utterance during indirect language stimulation; in the operant Imitation, it is the client who imitates and the clinician who models.

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Treatment: Targets and Procedures Treat Lack of Awareness of Problems Experienced ● Give immediate verbal feedback on errors ● Give visual feedback on errors ● Tape record and replay the speech to the client and discuss the errors ● Teach the client Self-Control (Self-Monitoring) skills Treat Impaired Attention ● Shape sustained attending behaviors with changing criterion (Changing Criterion, Treatment Procedure) ● Reinforce the client for paying attention to the stimulus material and for maintaining eye contact ● Structure the initial treatment sessions and reduce distractions, including noise ● Give alerting stimuli before presenting the treatment stimuli (e.g., ‘‘Look at me’’ before modeling a response, ‘‘Get ready, here comes the next picture’’ before presenting the stimulus picture; touching the client before presenting a treatment stimulus) ● Draw attention before you speak to the client (e.g., ‘‘Listen, I am going to tell you something.’’) ● Vary the treatment stimuli, drop unattractive stimuli, use clear and forceful stimuli ● Give frequent, brief breaks in the initial phase of treatment; reduce the number and duration of the breaks gradually 429

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reinforcing attention to treatment tasks Treat Visual Neglect ● Note that the most commonly used strategy to treat neglect is to force attention to that side with a variety of cues and prompts ● Use printed material or any means that would force attention to the neglected side ● Teach the patient to keep a finger on the left margin while reading and track back to it before beginning a new line ● Color the left-side margins, draw a colored line through the margin, or use other discriminative stimuli to force attention to the left side of reading texts; fade such stimuli ● Tell the patient to ‘‘Look to the left’’ when the client reaches the end of sentences; fade such verbal cues ● Teach clients to recognize that what they read does not make sense; teach them to quiz themselves about what they read ● Design reading materials with large print and progressively smaller print and ask the client to read them aloud Treat Impulsive Behaviors ● Teach the client to wait and withhold responses ● Give nonverbal signals to delay responses ● Fade the noverbal signals and introduce verbal signals to wait, withhold, and delay Treat Pragmatic Language Skills ● Teach the client to initiate conversation; have the client discuss various topics in which you teach various skills by modeling them, ask the client to use them, and reinforce the client for using them; for instance: • teach the client to introduce the topic explicitly • teach the client to give background information on narratives and stories 430

Right Hemisphere Syndrome • teach the client to periodically restate the topic of discussion • prompt the client to maintain focus on the main topic • teach the client to ask such questions as ‘‘Do you follow me?’’ or ‘‘Do you understand?’’ • give corrective feedback ● Teach the client to request clarification when messages are not understood (e.g., ‘‘Please repeat that,’’ or ‘‘I do not understand.’’) ● Teach the client to maintain eye contact during conversation; use such verbal stimuli as ‘‘Look at me’’ ● Reinforce progressively longer durations of topic of maintenance ● Teach the client to take turns in conversation; stop the client for inappropriate turn taking (e.g., interrupting you) ● Use the PACE program (Promoting Aphasics’ Communicative Effectiveness; described under Aphasia; Treatment of Aphasia: Specific Techniques or Programs) for teaching social communication Treat Impaired Reasoning Skills ● Teach the client to think and plan (e.g., discuss how the client might plan a vacation; help the client move in a logical manner) ● Pose different kinds of problems one might encounter in real life and ask the client to solve them (e.g., ‘‘How do you buy an airplane ticket?’’) Treat Impaired Inference ● Tell stories and ask questions to evoke implied information ● Describe situations that require the client to draw logical conclusions Treat Impaired Recognition of Absurdities ● Show pictures that depict logical and absurd events and ask the client to separate them (e.g., picture of a cat chasing a rat and picture of a rat chasing a cat) 431

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logical Treat Impaired Comprehension of Metaphors or Idioms ● Ask the client to select statements that give literal meanings ● Asking the client to sort out literal and figurative statements ● Set up hypothetical situations that require such judgments Treat Comprehension of Figurative Meanings ● Begin with nonliteral meanings that the client presently uses and understands ● Provide multiple meanings for a single statement ● Discuss the difference between what the statement apparently says and what it means ● Use stimuli that the client was familiar with and used premorbidly Treat Comprehension of Humor ● Associate captions with the cartoons ● Link the punch line with the body of the joke Teach Compensatory Strategies ● Monitor the comprehension of the speaker’s utterance ● Teach the use of such functional memory aids as lists of things do, writing down appointments, having a checklist of things to do before leaving the house, keeping related things together, and so forth ● Teach Self-Control (Self-Monitoring) skills including the generation of memory aids ● Teach the client to stop and self-correct when errors are made ● Make a few socially appropriate and inappropriate statements and ask the client to evaluate them ● Have the client evaluate social appropriateness of his or her own productions 432

Rigidity ● Teach the client to rephrase inappropriate comments to

make them more appropriate Brookshire, R. H. (1997). An introduction to neurogenic communication disorders (5th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Mosby Year Book. Hegde, M. N. (1998). A coursebook on aphasia and other neurogenic language disorders (2nd ed.). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Myers, P. S. (1999). Right hemisphere damage. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Tompkins, C. A. (1995). Right hemisphere communication disorders: Theory and management. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.

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Satiation. Temporary termination of a drive or need because it has been satisfied; a potential problem with Primary Reinforcers (e.g., food). ● Give only small amounts of food or drink to reinforce individual responses ● Let the client accumulate food that he or she can eat later ● Arrange treatment sessions, especially with infants and toddlers who need primary reinforcers, around breakfast or lunchtime ● Ask parents to withhold the primary reinforcers you plan to use before coming to treatment sessions

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Schedules of Reinforcement.

Different patterns of reinforcement that generate different patterns of responses; include Continuous Reinforcement schedules and Intermittent Reinforcement schedules. ● Use continuous reinforcement schedule in the beginning of treatment ● Shift to an intermittent schedule as learning becomes more stable

Script. A presumed mental representation of repeatedly occurring, sequenced events, episodes, or personal experiences; used in teaching advanced language skills including narrative skills; a description of baking cookies or running a hot dog stand is a script; it has a beginning and an end, actions people take, or roles people play; for procedures, see Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

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Secondary Reinforcers. Conditioned reinforcers whose effects depend on past learning; appropriate reinforcers for all kinds of verbal responses except for certain kinds of mands that request food and drink; include Social Reinforcers, Conditioned Generalized Reinforcers, Informative Feedback, and High Probability Behaviors.

Self-Control. A behavior that monitors and modifies other behaviors of the same person; a necessary skill in maintaining clinically acquired communicative behaviors.

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Self-Control Teaching Procedures • contrast correct and incorrect sentence forms (e.g., ‘‘Two cup’’ and ‘‘Two cups’’) • contrast the desirable lower pitch with the client’s excessively high pitch by modeling the two pitch levels or by tape-recording the client’s voice that might catch both the levels ● Teach clients to measure their behaviors reliably; for instance: • ask a client to measure his or her dysfluencies in selected situations outside the clinic and submit the data • ask a client to measure the frequency of his or her vocally abusive behaviors for 3 days and submit the data • ask a client to measure his or her misarticulations in certain specific situations and submit the data • have clients tape-record a home speech sample and play it as you give feedback on the target behaviors to be measured ● Let clients measure their behaviors along with you in treatment sessions; note that children, too, can learn to make a tally mark to measure correct productions of sounds, grammatic morphemes, voice qualities, and so forth; for instance: • in the treatment sessions, ask the client to chart his or her own correct and incorrect productions of target phonemes along with you • ask a fluency client in therapy to chart his or her own dysfluencies, hard and abrupt voice onset, excessively fast speech, easy onset, and appropriate rate • ask an apraxic client to chart correct and incorrect articulatory movements • ask a child in language therapy to chart sentences with and without the target grammatic features • ask a voice client in therapy to chart his or her desirable vocal qualities ● Give clients frequent feedback on their measurement to improve their skill; for instance: 439

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Self-Control Teaching Procedures • teach a voice client to pause soon after a hard glottal attack is produced and start again with a softer attack without your help • teach a child in articulation therapy to stop as soon as he or she produces a target sound incorrectly without your help • teach a client in apraxia therapy to stop as soon as a wrong articulatory gesture is initiated and then initiate the correct gesture without your help ● Teach clients to correct their own mistakes or nontarget responses • initially, give corrective feedback for every incorrect response • tell the client that you will on occasion not give correct feedback and the client should catch himself or herself making a wrong response and immediately correct the mistake without help • withhold corrective feedback on certain occasions • if the client does not immediately self-correct, give corrective feedback; remind the client that he or she should self-correct without your help • continue the procedure until the client reliably selfcorrects; reduce the frequency of corrective feedback further while maintaining self-corrections ● Teach clients to anticipate problems and take corrective actions • teach a person who stutters to practice saying ‘‘Hello’’ with appropriate airflow when the telephone starts ringing • teach an aphasic client to practice names of people who are expected to visit shortly • teach a voice client with vocal abuse to reduce talking before a scheduled and unavoidable speech to be given to a group • teach another voice client to drink more water to ward off vocal problems related to vocal dryness 441

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Self-Talk. A child language intervention procedure in which the clinician describes his or her own activity while playing with a child; procedure described under Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Sequence of Treatment. Movement within a treatment program from the beginning to the end; a description of steps involved in implementing a treatment plan; progression of treatment from a simple to a more complex level; see Treatment in Communicative Disorders, General Sequence.

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Shaping. A method of teaching nonexistent responses that are not even imitated; also known as successive approximation; supported by experimental evidence; highly useful in teaching a variety of skills. ● Select a terminal target response (e.g., the production of /m/ in word initial positions) ● Identify an initial component of that target response the client can imitate (e.g., putting the two lips together) 442

Side-Effects of Punishment ● Identify intermediate responses (e.g., humming or other

kinds of vocalizations, opening the mouth as humming is continued) ● Teach the initial response by modeling and immediate positive reinforcement (e.g., putting the lips together on several trials) ● In successive stages, teach the intermediate responses (e.g., adding humming when the lips are closed; opening the mouth when the humming is continued; adding other sounds to form words) ● Continue until the terminal response is taught

Side-Effects of Punishment. Undesirable effects of punishment procedures; include emotional reactions, aggressive reactions, unexpected increase in the punished response, increase in a different response than the one punished, and so forth; to be eliminated or minimized by prudent use of response reduction methods. ● Always use positive reinforcers for desirable behaviors ● Keep reinforcement:punishment ratio in favor of reinforcement ● Shape a difficult response to avoid using response reduction methods ● Consistently apply response reduction methods to all undesirable behaviors ● Remove or reduce reinforcement for undesirable behaviors ● Never associate response reduction methods with positive reinforcement

Significant Others. People who typically interact with a client on a daily basis; include family members, teachers, friends, colleagues, baby sitters, and health care workers; important in helping the client learn and maintain communicative behaviors; recipients of training within a Maintenance Strategy.

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Single-Subject Design Strategy. Methods of demonstrating treatment effects by showing contrasts between conditions of no treatment, treatment, withdrawal of treatment, and other control procedures; typically, all subjects selected receive treatment (no control group); includes, among others, ABA Design, ABAB Design, and Multiple Baseline Design; contrasted with Group Design Strategy.

Social Reinforcers. A variety of conditioned reinforcers frequently used in treatment sessions; include verbal praise, attention, touch, eye contact, and facial expressions; resistant to satiation effect; may not work with nonverbal clients. ● With children who are nonverbal, profoundly retarded, and very young (infants and toddlers), pair social reinforcers with primary reinforcers ● Eventually, fade the primary reinforcers and maintain the responses on social reinforcers only

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Spasmodic Dysphonia. A voice disorder characterized in most cases by severe overadduction of vocal folds and strained or choked-off voice quality; in some cases, phonation may be impossible; in other cases, characterized by sudden abduction of folds and resulting aphonia; of unknown etiology; possible neuropathology; voice therapy is not particularly helpful although several techniques, including relaxed, easy, and less effortful phonation; the yawn-sigh method; auditory masking; amplified voice feedback, laryngeal massage, and other kinds of digital manipulations; none 444

Spastic Dysarthria has produced lasting treatment effects; some clinicians combine voice therapy with medical management in a team effort; current medical management includes: ● Injection of Botox (botulinum toxin A) into one or both of the vocal folds to induce paralysis of the folds; some data suggest the best results are with unilateral injection • initially, the voice is weak and breathy, which improves with voice therapy • voice therapy is designed to eliminate habitual over adduction and effortful phonation by teaching more relaxed phonation • reinjection may be needed as the effects last only a few months ● Recurrent laryngeal nerve sectioning; a surgical procedure in which the recurrent laryngeal nerve is cut. • procedure has not produced long-term favorable effects and, in some cases, the symptoms worsen; the laryngeal nerve also may regenerate, resulting in the symptoms return • need to be combined with voice therapy; procedures to raise the pitch, head position changes, and digital manipulation of the larynx have all been clinically tried and found to be helpful to varying degrees

Spastic Dysarthria. A type of motor speech disorder; its neuropathology is bilateral damage to the upper motor neuron (direct and indirect motor pathways) resulting in weakness, spastic paralysis, limited range of movement, and slowness of movement; may affect all aspects of speech; major speech problems include strained-strangled-harsh voice, hypernasality, slow rate, consonant imprecision, and monopitch and monoloudness; select appropriate treatment targets and procedures described under Treatment of Dysarthria; see Dysarthria: Specific Types.

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Specific Normal Voice Facilitating Techniques. A collection of voice therapy procedures used to promote normal voice productions; see Voice Disorders; Specific Normal Voice Facilitating Techniques.

Stimulus Generalization. Production of a newly learned response to stimuli not used in training; an important goal of intervention; to promote stimulus generalization. ● Use a variety of stimuli during treatment ● Use common stimuli ● Ask clients to bring objects, toys, books, and so forth from home to use as stimuli ● Train multiple exemplars ● Periodically Probe the production of target behaviors to assess their generalized productions

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Story Grammar Story Grammar. The structure of narratives which may be treatment targets for children with language disorders; described under Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Stridency. A voice disorder characterized by an unpleasant, shrill, and metallic-sounding voice; caused by excessive pharyngeal constriction and an elevated larynx. ● Use the Chewing Method ● Model and contrast good vocal production with a strident production ● Lower the pitch; use Glottal Fry ● Teach relaxation ● Teach oral openness ● Use Yawn-Sigh method

Stridor. A harsh and shrill (high-pitched) sound during breathing; often found in persons with laryngeal obstruction; laryngeal stridor is associated with various laryngeal pathologies including congenital laryngeal cyst, congenital laryngeal papilloma, congenital subglottic stenosis, and laryngocele; treatment is medical.

Stuttering. A disorder of fluency characterized by excessive amounts of Dysfluencies, excessive durations of dysfluencies, and unusual amount of muscular effort in speaking; has varied definitions including an involuntary loss of speech motor control, part-word repetitions and sound prolongations, efforts to avoid stuttering, a social role conflict, and so forth; may be associated with avoidance of certain words and speaking situations; experience of negative emotions and expression of negative verbalizations about himself or herself and about listeners.

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Stuttering: A Comprehensive Treatment certain effective components of treatment to create somewhat personal programs; airflow management, gentle phonatory onset, and rate reduction through prolonged syllables are common elements across diverse contemporary treatment programs; these programs are empirically supported with some experimental evidence.

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cies in conversational speech to less than 1% in clinic speech samples and no more than 5% in everyday situations by: • teaching the client to manage his or her speechrelated airflow properly • teaching the client to initiate speech softly and gently • teaching the client to prolong syllable durations to reduce the speech rate • shaping normal prosodic features of speech and stabilizing fluency • strictly managing the behavioral contingency by giving prompt positive and corrective feedback • shifting treatment to more naturalistic settings • training significant others to manage the skills in the natural environment to promote maintenance of fluency over time and across situations • following up the client periodically and giving booster therapy when needed ● Make a thorough assessment; determine the forms and the frequencies of stuttering in both conversational speech and oral reading in clinical and extraclinical situations; consult the cited sources and the PGASLP ● Before you start treatment, take note of suggestions under Measure dysfluency rates in all treatment sessions and Vary the treatment procedures to suit the individual client, both found at the end of this main entry 448

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suring specific dysfluencies generally leads to better interobserver reliability ● Baserate stuttering in the clinic • take extended conversational speech samples • count all types of dysfluencies and the number of words spoken • calculate the percent dysfluency rate • continue to record brief conversational speech samples in the next two sessions during the first 5 minutes • take additional samples if the three-sample dysfluency rates are highly divergent ● Select the three target fluency skills that are incompatible with stuttering, commonly used, and known to be effective in establishing stutter-free speech: Airflow Management, Gentle Phonatory Onset, and Rate Reduction through syllable prolongation; all described later under Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Techniques or Programs. ● Counsel the client and the family about the treatment program • Give an overview of the treatment program and its rationale (essentially tell them that the method prevents stuttering and helps practice fluency skills) • point out its known effects and research data that support its use • point out its drawback, which is initially an unacceptable artificial-sounding fluency • point out its advantages: it teaches fluency skills that the client can fall back on at any time in the future • caution about the potential need for Booster Therapy in the future; tell them that brief periods of repeated booster treatment over a period of several years may be needed • impress on the client and the family that a relapse of stuttering does not mean the treatment has failed; 449

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with booster treatment, fluency can be regained and stabilized • answer all questions the client, the family, or both may have about the treatment ● Begin teaching one target skill at a time; complete this skill component training in one session ● Teach airflow management first • model airflow management for the client • inhale a slightly deeper than usual amount of air through your nose • exhale a slight amount of air through your open mouth as soon as inhaling the air; make sure the air is not impounded in the lungs • ask the client to imitate your airflow modeling • reinforce correctly imitated responses promptly • if the client has difficulty doing both, model only a deeper than the usual inhalation; reinforce correct imitation; then model exhalation of a small amount of air; reinforce correct imitation • stop the client at the earliest sign of mismanaged airflow; point out the error (e.g., too deep an inhalation; impounding the air in the lungs; exhausting the air supply when asked exhale a small amount of air); model again for imitation; reinforce the imitated response • continue until the client can, on request and without modeling, inhale through the nose and exhale a slight amount of air through the mouth; give several successful trials ● Introduce the next skill—gentle phonatory onset • model gentle onset and contrast that with hard glottal attacks, especially the kind exhibited by the client; use short and simple words (e.g., hi, how, bye, my) • initiate syllables softly, gently, slowly, and in a relaxed manner 450

Stuttering: A Comprehensive Treatment • ask the client to imitate only the just modeled gentle onset; reinforce correctly imitated soft onset productions • continue until the client can, upon request and without modeling, initiate sounds softly while producing several words ● Combine airflow management and gentle phonatory onset • model both the component skills—airflow management and gentle phonatory onset—for the client to imitate; use the same words as before • ask the client to imitate your modeling of airflow management and gentle phonatory onset; reinforce correct productions • go back to single skill training if the client mismanages a component; concentrate on the mismanaged component; combine them again • continue until the client can, on request and without modeling, inhale and exhale slightly and initiate sounds softly while producing several words; reinforce such evoked (unimitated) productions • stop the client at the earliest sign of mismanaged airflow, abrupt or tensed onset of phonation, or stuttering (dysfluency); explain what went wrong, concentrate on the missed target if necessary, combine the skills again, and give additional practice ● Introduce the next skill—rate reduction through syllable prolongation • prefer the clinician-induced rate reduction; use Delayed Auditory Feedback if necessary (described later under Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Techniques or Programs); note that instructions and modeling and strict management of behavioral contingencies can be very effective in reducing the rate • model a slow speech through syllable prolongation; use the same words used until this stage; stretch the 451

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syllable duration; reinforce correct imitation of slow, prolonged speech • stop the client as soon as you hear the sign of increased rate of speech or the production of a dysfluency; explain the error, model again, and reinforce correct imitations • continue until the client can, on request and without modeling, stretch syllables in all the words being practiced until now • model stretched-out syllable durations with continuous phonation ● Combine all three skills of fluency—airflow management, gentle onset of phonation, and syllable prolongation—into an integrated skill • model inhalation and slight exhalation, gentle onset, and syllable prolongation using the same words practiced until this point • ask the client to imitate your modeling of all three target skills in words; reinforce correct imitations of airflow management, gentle phonatory onset, and syllable prolongations • monitor all three skills at this stage and stop the client for mismanaged targets or production of stuttering; pause briefly and continue • provide training in skills with single words initially modeled and later evoked by questions that lead to one-word responses (e.g., ‘‘What is your first name?’’ ‘‘What is your last name?’’ and several similar questions to evoke single word names of family members and friends; ‘‘What is the name of the city you live in?’’ ‘‘What is the name of your street?’’ and several similar questions) • continue until the client can, on request and without modeling, produce all three target behaviors and with stutter-free speech at the word level with 98 to 100% accuracy 452

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4. Fluency Reinforcement Program Combined With Direct Stuttering Reduction Methods. In treating children who stutter, the effects of positive reinforcement for fluency may be enhanced by adding an optional direct stuttering reduction program (nonexclusion time-out, called here pause-and-talk or response cost); to do this, take the following steps. ● Use all procedures described under the previous entry, An Exclusive Fluency Reinforcement Program ● Note that the fluency reinforcement program requires you to react only to fluent productions (with positive consequences) but nothing is done when the child exhibits a stutter; in this combined procedure, a direct stuttering reduction procedure is added to fluency reinforcement Add Response Cost to Fluency Reinforcement. Response Cost is a procedure to reduce an undesirable response directly; this procedure includes giving the child a token for every fluent production and removing a token contingent on every stuttering; thus, the procedure is a combination of fluency reinforcement and reinforcement withdrawal (corrective feedback or operant punishment) contingent on stuttering; there is evidence that this is an effective procedure. 465

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approach to treating stuttering in which fluency shaping techniques are combined with direct stuttering reduction methods; may be the most suitable for certain clients with whom pause-and-talk or response cost may not produce the maximal effects partly because of excessive frequency of stuttering; involves only a minimal use of fluency shaping (minimal syllable prolongation, only of the initial syllable of the first word of an utterance); thus it avoids the negative side-effects of fluency shaping (excessively slow and monotonous speech); although minimal prolongation may not be effective in itself, it may be effective when combined with pause-and-talk or response cost; experimental evidence is emerging in its favor; note that this technique may be used with adults or older children who stutter; this procedure may be unnecessary for very young children (3- to 5-year-olds) who may benefit the most from An Exclusive Fluency Reinforcement Program, described earlier under #3. ● Assess the client’s stuttering thoroughly; determine the forms and frequency of dysfluencies in conversational speech in clinical and extraclinical situations; consult the cited sources and the PGASLP ● Select a combination of a minimal syllable prolongation (MSP) with either pause-and-talk (P-&-T) or response cost (RC); possibly, a child will react better to one combination (e.g., MSP plus RC) than to the other (e.g., MSP plus P-&-T); therefore, be prepared to experiment ● Describe the procedure to the client and the family; tell them you will be using a slight syllable prolongation with either RC or P-&-T and that you will be initially trying both the combinations to select the one that works best with the child 470

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semistructured situation; see An Exclusive Fluency Reinforcement Program under #3 for details on structuring play-oriented treatment sessions with young children ● Apply the MSP plus P-&-T combination; begin with MSP (it does not matter what combination you try first; your preference for either RC or P-&-T may influence your initial selection) • model a slight prolongation of the initial syllable of the first word in an utterance; do not prolong all the syllables of all the words as it is done in the fullfledged fluency shaping technique • ask the child to imitate your production; make sure the child imitates a slight prolongation of the initial syllable of the first word only • reinforce the child for correct prolongation with verbal praise or with a token backed up with other reinforcers • simultaneously, every time the child stutters or you observe an earliest sign of a stutter, say ‘‘Stop,’’ turn your face away from the client, freeze, look at your watch for 5 seconds • make sure the client ceases talking • re-establish the eye contact, smile, and indicate in some way that the client can now resume talking (e.g., say ‘‘You can talk now,’’ ‘‘You were saying . . .,’’ ‘‘OK’’; etc.); note that after a few trials of this kind, most client will resume their speech as soon as you re-establish your eye contact and smile • after a few successful imitations of MSP, drop modeling and prompt the syllable prolongation by a hand signal; continue to apply P-&-T for all stutterings; client now is talking with MSP and pausing after each stuttering • continue this for two or three sessions to evaluate the effects of this combined procedure 471

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semistructured situation; see An Exclusive Fluency Reinforcement Program under #3 for details on structuring play-oriented treatment sessions with young children ● Apply the MSP plus RC combination; begin with MSP • model a slight prolongation of the initial syllable of the first word in an utterance; do not prolong all the syllables of all the words the way it is done in the fullfledged fluency shaping technique • ask the child to imitate your production; make sure the child imitates a slight prolongation of the initial syllable of the first word only • reinforce the child for correct prolongation resulting in stutter-free speech with a token the child will later exchange for a backup reinforcer • simultaneously, every time the child stutters or you observe an earliest sign of a stutter, withdraw a token from the child (this is the response cost aspect of the combination) • continue this MSP, token presentation for fluent productions, and token withdrawal for stuttering for two or three sessions to evaluate the effects of this combined procedure • if unsure of the effects, administer for another session or two • measure the exact frequency of all dysfluencies and the number of words spoken; calculate the percent dysfluency rate for all sessions so you can later compare the effect of this combination with that of the other • compare the rate of stuttering in treatment sessions involving MSP plus P-&-T that you have already tried and MSP plus RC • pick the combination that reduced stuttering faster compared to the other combination

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• consider other factors that may be important in treatment technique selection: client’s intense dislike of the technique, uncooperative behavior during treatment sessions in spite of good treatment effects, poor treatment attendance that may be attributable to a dislike of treatment, and strong parental objection in spite of positive effects and a good effort to convince them; in such cases, use an alternative, which may be the other combination as long it is effective (even if not to the same extent as the just applied procedure); note that the alternative my be a positive reinforcement of fluency, fluency shaping with syllable prolongation and airflow management, or any other techniques described in this section on Stuttering • tell the client and the family about the combination (or other technique) you have picked; explain why you picked that combination by showing the data demonstrating greater or faster reduction in stuttering • if selected (because of its more impressive effects compared with the other combination, client satisfaction with the technique as indexed by smiling and cooperativeness in the sessions and an eagerness to work with you with no signs of stress or negative reactions to the procedure), continue with the MSP plus RC combination until fluency is stabilized in the clinic and in natural settings • if MSP plus RC is not selected, continue with the technique selected (may be the other combination or a different technique altogether) • dismiss the client when fluency is sustained in the treatment setting as well as in the client’s natural setting • arrange for follow-ups and booster treatment sessions Ahlander, E., & Hegde, M. N. (2000, April). The relative effects of pause-and-talk and response cost. Paper presented at the Treat-

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prolongation, gentle phonatory onset, and airflow management Counseling as Treatment for Stuttering. A collection of varied approaches to treating stuttering by giving information, advice, and strategies to deal with the problem; a range of techniques most of them psychologically oriented; recipients are parents of children who stutter and adults who stutter; often combined with direct methods of treating stuttering; efficacy of counseling when used exclusively with no direct work with stuttering by either the clinician or the parent is not established; when combined with direct work on stuttering, whether counseling had any effect is unclear. Counseling Parents of Children Who Stutter. Using the psychological methods of counseling to indirectly treat stuttering in their children; an Indirect Stuttering Treatment method (described later in this section); the main approach is talking with the child’s parents to change their feelings, attitudes, ideas, and expectations about stuttering and fluency; efficacy of this approach not established; often combined with Direct Stuttering Treatment (described later in this section). ● Be a sensitive, uncritical, accepting listener ● Find out what the parents wish to accomplish through counseling ● Let the parents explore their feelings, emotions, perceptions, and expectations relative to their child’s stuttering ● Let the parents freely talk about their fears, possible feelings of guilt, and their overt reactions to stuttering in their child

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• ask the client to face different audiences and stutter voluntarily to learn that most people do not react negatively, and if some do, he or she can tolerate it ● Modify stuttering by teaching more fluent, easier, and less abnormal stuttering • ask the client to face all feared and avoided words and begin to use them • teach cancellation by asking the client to pause after a stuttered word and say the word again with easy and more relaxed stuttering (soft articulatory contacts and slower rate); do not ask the client to say the word fluently; ask the client to use cancellation outside the clinic • teach pull-outs by asking the client to change stuttering in its midcourse; let the client pull himself or herself out by slowing down and using soft articulatory contacts; let the client use them outside the clinic • teach preparatory sets by asking the client to use the techniques of modifying stuttering (easy, relaxed stuttering) as he or she anticipates difficulty on a word ● Stabilize the treatment gains • teach the client to continue to assign himself or herself speech tasks that help stabilize the use of cancellations, pull-outs, and preparatory sets • ask the client to constantly practice the stuttering modification skills on difficult words • reduce the frequency of client contacts • continue to seek out difficult and previously avoided speaking situations • reintegrate the stutterer’s self-concept to include the role of a speaker who speaks mostly fluently but stutters on occasion

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• initiate activities to generalize fluency to situations outside the clinic and with an audience other than the clinician • teach easy stuttering; teach cancellation, pull-outs, and preparatory sets described under Fluent Stuttering: Van Riper’ Approach (described in this section); teach the stutterer to integrate fluency enhancing skills with stuttering modification. • initiate activities to generalize stuttering modification skills to situations outside the clinic and with other audiences ● Help maintain improvement • help the stutterer become his or her own clinician; use the authors’ handout ‘‘Becoming Your Own Clinician’’; help the client learn to design assignments to reduce fear and avoidance (e.g., voluntary stuttering in a difficult situation); encourage the client to work on stuttering and fluency everyday • establish long-term fluency goals; use the authors’ handout; help the client set the goal of spontaneous (unmonitored) fluency whenever possible; controlled (monitored) fluency when it is important to be fluent; and controlled stuttering (mild, stuttering with which the stutterer is comfortable) when it is acceptable Peters, T. J., & Guitar, B. (1991). Stuttering: An integrated approach to its nature and treatment. Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins.

Lidcombe Program. An early intervention program for preschool children who stutter; administered mostly be parents; involves the behavioral methods of positive reinforcement for fluency and corrective feedback for stuttering; parents and their stuttering children visit the clinic once a week to get training in 1-hour ses-

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• train the parent to engage the child in structured play with storybooks, picture books, selected toys, and so forth • train them to tell the child that ‘‘We will be playing a game and let’s see if you can say a lot words smoothly. I will say ‘Great talking’ when I hear smooth talking.’’ • train parents to evoke single words with the help of flash cards with a child whose stuttering is very severe; train parents to use more play-oriented conversational speech with a child whose stuttering is mild • train parents to decrease the treatment structure as the child becomes more fluent • train parents to praise the child for stutter-free speech with such verbal statements as ‘‘Good talking!’’ ‘‘Your speech sounds great!’’ or ‘‘Your words are smooth!’’ and so forth; train them to deliver such praise promptly, consistently, and with enthusiasm and sincerity; train them to supplement praise with such tangible reinforcers as stickers or tokens ● Train parents to react in one of several ways when their child stutters in structured treatment sessions at home: • ignore stuttering • say something like ‘‘That was a bumpy word’’ and continue conversation • model a fluent production of the stuttered word and continue conversation • say ‘‘A bumpy word occurred’’ and ask the child to repeat the word correctly or fluently • ask the child to repeat the stuttered word fluently and, if successful, ask the child to do that one or two more times; reinforce fluent productions

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Stuttering Treatment: Specific Programs • discuss reasons for increase in stuttering should this happen and design a strategy for the parent to implement it; set a returning date • continue monitoring as scheduled • train parents to gradually reduce on-line monitoring while maintaining fluent speech Lincoln, M., & Harrison, E. (1999). The Lidcombe program. In M. Onslow & A. Packman (Eds.), The handbook of early stuttering intervention (pp. 103–117). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.

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Metronome-Paced Speech. Speech that is regulated by the beats of a metronome; a form of treatment used for stuttering and cluttering; syllables or word initiations may be regulated; may be used to slow down or accelerate the rate of speech; documented immediate effects of reduced or eliminated stuttering, but timed, rhythmic, and unnatural sounding speech; research needed to document long-term effects; possibility of client adaptation to the beats (no more effective); Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) (described earlier in this section), with its similar effects, is preferred over metronome speech in the treatment of stuttering. ● Assess the client and baserate stuttering ● Select a miniaturized, battery-operated, electronic metronome the client can wear like a hearing aid ● Find the client-specific beat rate that reduces or eliminates stuttering ● Have the client time the production of syllables with the beats in the early stages of treatment ● Have the client time the production of words with the beats in the later stages ● Have the client time the production of phrases and sentences as fluency increases and stabilizes ● Increase the rate of beats or vice versa, depending on the starting point

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Monterey Fluency Program (MFP). A programmed operant approach to establish, transfer, and maintain fluency in persons who stutter; uses one of two specific methods: Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) and Gradual Increase in Length and Complexity of Utterances (GILCU); DAF is often used with older or more severe stutterers and GILCU is more frequently used with younger and less severe stutterers; contains establishment, transfer, and maintenance phases; supported by clinical evidence; developed and researched by B. Ryan and B. Van Kirk. MFP Delayed Auditory Feedback Method ● Give an overview of the program to the client, the parents, or both; describe the role the parents or other family members will play in fluency maintenance at home ● Give a criterion test consisting of 5 minutes of reading, monologue, and conversation to baserate stuttering; measure stuttering in terms of stuttered words per minute (SW/M) ● Implement the fluency establishment program

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• teach the client to identify and measure his or her stuttering with 75% or better accuracy • begin by reading with the child in a slow, prolonged, and fluent manner; reinforce verbally and with tokens and require a 0 SW/M in this and the subsequent steps • instruct the child to read with a 250-millisecond (msec) DAF • reinforce verbally and with tokens for fluent speech and say, ‘‘Stop, use your slow, prolonged speech’’ when the client stutters • decrease the DAF to 200, 150, 100, 50, and 0 msec in successive steps • at each step of the decreasing DAF, require a 0 SW/M (100% fluency) during a 5-minute oral reading • switch to monologue with 250- msec DAF when the client meets the 5-minute 0 SW/M criterion in oral reading with no DAF • decrease DAF in steps similar to those for oral reading • switch to conversational speech with 250-msec DAF when the client meets the performance criterion (0 SW/M in 5 minutes of monologue with no DAF) • repeat the steps to progressively decrease the DAF to zero and have the client meet the performance criterion ● Implement the fluency transfer program • vary the physical setting; have the client read for 1 minute and converse for 3 minutes with you in each of five physical settings; verbally reinforce for fluency and say ‘‘Stop, speak fluently’’ when stuttering occurs • vary the audience; bring in one person (e.g., the child’s classmate), then two persons, and finally 498

Stuttering Treatment: Specific Programs three persons; each time, let the child converse with 0 SW/M • ask parents to join you in treatment sessions; train them to conduct home reading, monologue, and conversational practice sessions • ask parents to conduct practice sessions at home; have the client read, engage in monologue, or conversation at home with increasing audience size as the corresponding steps are completed in the clinic • ask the parents to require fluent speech all the time at home and let them reinforce the child • transfer training to classroom; initially, let the child read and converse with you in the classroom • eventually, have the child give an oral presentation to the class • have the child make telephone calls and require a 3-minute fluent conversation on the phone • have the child speak to strangers and require 3minutes of fluent speech • instruct the child to speak fluently at all the time and in all situations ● Implement the fluency maintenance program • follow up the child for 22 months; schedule followup sessions 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months • give the criterion test at each visit (5 minutes of oral reading, monologue, and conversation with 0.5 SW/M or less) • if there is regression, recycle through selected steps of the treatment program • dismiss the child after 22 months of maintained fluency MFP Gradual Increase in Length and Complexity of Utterances (GILCU) ● Give an overview of the program to the client, the parents, or both; describe the role the parents or 499

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other family members will play in fluency maintenance at home ● Give a criterion test consisting of 5 minutes of reading, monologue, and conversation to baserate stuttering; measure stuttering in terms of stuttered words per minute (SW/M) ● Implement the fluency establishment program • teach the client to identify and measure his or her stuttering with 75% or better accuracy • instruct the client to ‘‘read fluently’’; have the client read one word fluently; reinforce with verbal praise for fluent production; say ‘‘Stop, read fluently’’ when stuttering occurs; obtain 10 consecutive fluently read words • gradually increase the length of orally read responses; steps include 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 fluent words; 1, 2, 3, and 4 fluent sentences; fluency for 30 seconds and 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, and 5 minutes • instruct the client to ‘‘speak fluently’’; ask the client to engage in monologue (first step with a nonreader); use pictures and topic ideas and other necessary stimulus procedures with the same gradually escalating steps • engage the child in conversation; use the same gradually escalating steps • reinforce fluent productions with verbal praise and tokens • say ‘‘Stop, read fluently’’ or ‘‘Stop, speak fluently’’ when the client stutters • model the target response when the client persists with stuttering • require 100% fluency (0 SW/M) at each step • give a criterion test at the end of the establishment phase (5 minutes of reading, monologue, and conversation with 0 SW/M) ● Implement the fluency transfer program 500

Stuttering Treatment: Specific Programs • use the procedure outlined earlier under MFP Delayed Auditory Feedback Method; skip or modify steps to suit the client (e.g., skip telephone training for a young child; select appropriate extraclinical settings for an adult) ● Implement the fluency maintenance program • use the procedures outlined earlier under MFP Delayed Auditory Feedback Method Ryan, B., & Van Kirk, B. (1971). Monterey fluency program. Palo Alto, CA: Monterey Learning Systems.

Prolonged Speech. Speech produced with extended duration of speech sounds, especially vowels, and particularly those in the initial position of words; a target behavior in stuttering treatment; not a treatment procedure but the effect of treatment; induces Stutter-Free Speech; results in fluency that sounds unnatural and socially unacceptable; useful in establishing stutter-free speech; often combined with such additional targets as Natural Sounding Fluency, Airflow Management, and Gentle Phonatory Onset; a common component in many contemporary stuttering treatment programs; supported by clinical evidence, some experimentally controlled; procedurally, either DAF-induced or clinician-induced. Prolonged Speech, DAF-Induced. Speech that is produced by prolonging speech sounds, especially the vowels, and particularly in the word-initial positions; prolongation of sounds forced by the Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF); induces stutter-free speech that sounds fluent but unnatural and socially unacceptable; a target behavior in many stuttering treatment programs; often combined with such other targets as Airflow Management, Gentle Phonatory Onset, Normal Prosody and Natural-Sounding Fluency; supported by clinical evidence, some experimentally controlled; clinical procedures under Delayed Auditory Feedback. 501

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Prolonged Speech, Clinician-Induced. Speech that is produced by prolonging speech sounds, especially the vowels, and particularly in the word-initial positions; prolongation of sounds taught by clinicians without mechanical help; Instructions, Modeling, and Differential Reinforcement are the most effective techniques to induce it; supported by clinical evidence, some experimentally controlled; induces stutter-free speech that sounds fluent but unnatural and socially unacceptable; a target behavior in many stuttering treatment programs; often combined with such other targets as Airflow Management, Gentle Phonatory Onset, Normal Prosody, or Natural-Sounding Fluency. ● Assess the client and baserate the stuttering rate and speech rate ● Instruct the client in producing prolonged speech and describe its need, effects, and justification ● Ask the client to prolong the vowels, especially those at the beginning of words, phrases, and grammatical clauses ● Ask the client to reduce the rate of speech throughout the utterance ● Model the prolonged speech and overall reduced speech rate ● Model words, phrases, and sentences to give the client an idea, but ask the client to imitate only what he or she can (perhaps only words); model frequently ● Reduce your own rate of speech and talk in a noticeably prolonged manner ● Reinforce the client’s prolonged speech promptly and lavishly ● Tell the client to ‘‘stop’’ (discontinue talking) at the earliest sign of increased rate, shortened vowels, or stuttering 502

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treatment whenever the client fails to maintain the target behaviors or produces stuttering ● Establish stutter-free (prolonged) speech at the topographic levels of words, phrases, sentences, and spontaneous conversational speech ● Use such performance criteria as 98 or 100% fluency at each topographic level, observed for a period of time or for a certain number of responses ● Increase the length of utterance as the client meets a particular performance criterion ● Decrease the extent of prolongation gradually as the client becomes more fluent ● Ask the client to increase the rate of speech and reinforce fluency at progressively increased speech rates ● Model normal prosodic features and ask the client to imitate ● Let the client slowly and gradually return to normal rate, rhythm, and prosody while maintaining fluency ● Train family members to signal the client to speak slowly and to reinforce fluent speech in daily situations ● Train the client in Self-Control (Self-Monitoring) skills by having him or her count stutterings ● Train the client to stop and slow down every time the rate increases or stuttering returns ● Conduct informal treatment sessions in varied nonclinical settings ● Counsel the client, the family, or both about the possibility of relapse and the need for booster treatment ● Follow up and arrange for booster treatment Rate Reduction in Treating Stuttering. A speech rate slower than normal or below a client-specific baserate; 503

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a typical target to reduce stuttering; a component of many treatment programs; similar to prolonged speech; supported by clinical evidence; may use Delayed Auditory Feedback to induce rate reduction; appropriate with very young children especially when the DAF is omitted. ● Establish the baserate of speech rate, measured in terms of syllables per minute or words per minute ● Instruct the client in rate reduction and describe its desirable effects ● Reassure the client that a more acceptable rate is the final target of treatment ● Reduce the rate by prolonging the vowels, not by increasing pause durations between words, phrases, and sentences ● Experiment with slower rates that reduce stuttering to near zero ● Model the effective rate selected for the client ● Ask the client to imitate the slower rate in producing multisyllable words and phrases by extending the duration of syllables (not pauses) ● Use delayed auditory feedback if instructions and modeling are not effective ● Shape slower rate in multisyllable words, phrases, sentences, and conversational speech to induce Stutter-Free Speech ● Fade the excessively slow rate of speech while the client maintains stutter-free conversational speech and moves toward more Natural Sounding Fluency ● Shape the normal or near-normal rate along with Normal Prosody ● Teach Self-Control (Self-Monitoring) of rate control that the client can use when needed in everyday situations Regulated Breathing. A direct stuttering reduction method in which the client is asked to modify 504

Stuttering Treatment: Specific Programs breathing patterns along with the use of such other strategies as thought formulation and relaxation; some clinical evidence supports its use but the effective component of the eclectic program is not clear; developed and researched by N. Azrin and his associates; only the components inhalation and slight exhalation before initiating phonation have been incorporated into several current treatment programs; more effective with older children and adults than with very young children. ● Ask the client to formulate thoughts before speaking ● Instruct the client to inhale and exhale a small amount of air before talking; model the target behaviors ● Ask the client to continue to exhale a little even after the last sound is produced ● Instruct the client to pause at natural speech junctures and formulate thoughts again ● Ask the client to stop soon after a stuttering occurs and relax, especially the chest muscles ● Ask the client to seek out previously avoided speaking situations ● Ask the client to practice the new method of speaking daily ● Train and ask the client to measure and record his or her stutterings in natural settings ● Train a family member in the procedure and let the person help the stutterer at home ● Maintain phone contact with the client to follow up Azrin, N. H., & Nunn, R. G. (1974). A rapid method of eliminating stuttering by a regulated breathing approach. Behavior Research & Therapy, 12, 279–286.

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discussions; developed and researched by W. Perkins and his associates, including R. Curlee. ● Establish fluent speech • set the DAF at 250 msec to generate about 30 words per minute (wpm) and stutter-free speech • use reading or conversation, whichever is easier for the client • use clinician-induced prolongation if a DAF unit is not available ● Establish normal breath flow • begin this in the second session if not toward the end of first session • limit the phrase length to three to eight syllables • teach the client to maintain airflow continuously throughout an utterance; ask the client to blend words in a smooth, continuous manner • teach a soft, breathy voice • teach gentle initiation of the initial syllable of phrases ● Establish normal prosody • teach normal intonation, stress pattern • have the client prolong stressed syllables longer and produce them louder • have the client produce unstressed syllables with light contacts and with less prolongation ● Shift responsibility for taking all subsequent steps to the stutterer • impress on the client that all subsequent steps are his or her own responsibility • ask the client to tape-record a treatment step taken and make decisions about the degree of control, the ability to slow down when the rate accelerates, and the need to move back to an earlier step • ask the client to move at a comfortable speech rate ● Establish slow-normal speech in conversation 506

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Stuttering Treatment: Specific Programs • change the therapy room and add one and then more listeners to treatment sessions • ask the client to face speaking situations from the least difficult to the most difficult and try to maintain normal fluency (e.g., talking on the telephone, ordering in a restaurant, talking to strangers) • reduce the frequency of treatment sessions • facilitate living pattern changes by encouraging the stutterer to participate in enjoyable speech activities previously not tried; ask family members to accept the newly learned normal fluency in the client Perkins, W. H. (1973). Replacement of stuttering with normal speech: II. Clinical procedures. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 38, 295–303.

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Shadowing. A stuttering and cluttering treatment technique in which the client, without seeing the text, repeats (shadows) everything the clinician reads from a book; the client stays a few words behind the clinician; typical effect is to reduce the frequency of stuttering; popular in the 1960s and 1970s, especially in Europe; some clinician evidence suggests its effect in reducing stuttering; no research on maintenance of fluency. ● Assess the client and baserate the stuttering frequency ● Select a reading material that is suitable to the client ● Instruct the client to say everything that you read ● Give practice by reading a few sentences at a time, stopping, and reinstructing, if necessary ● Do not show the text to the client ● Read normally; do not change the rate, rhythm, or phrasing ● Tape-record the client’s shadowing to measure the frequency of stuttering during treatment sessions Stutter-Free Speech. Speech of a person who stutters that contains no or few stutterings; often not the same

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Stuttering Modification. A collection of approaches to treating stuttering in which the emphasis is on changing the form of stuttering so that it is less severe and more socially and personally acceptable; the goal is not normal fluency, but less abnormality; approach exemplified by Fluent Stuttering approach of Van Riper (described earlier in this section); includes attempts to change attitudes and feelings; treatment sessions loosely structured; little emphasis on measurement of behaviors; contrasted with Fluency Shaping Techniques (described earlier in this section). Stuttering Prevention: A Clinical Method. An early treatment program for children who stutter; developed by W. Starkweather and his associates; based on the Demands and Capacities Model (DCM) of fluency and stuttering; goal is to reduce demands made on the child’s fluency and increase fluency capacities. 510

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the child’s age and gender • model a level of language use that is appropriate for the child • change parent’s language as specified earlier ● Dismiss the child only when both the parents’ and the child’s behaviors have changed Starkweather, W., Gottwald, S. R., & Halfond, M. (1990). Stuttering prevention: A clinical method. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Stuttering, Voluntary. A technique of stuttering modification in which the client is asked to stutter deliberately; the goal is to reduce the fear and embarrassment associated with it and to eliminate avoidance of stuttering; part of Van Riper’s Fluent Stuttering approach.

Subcortical Aphasia.

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Super-Supraglottic Swallow ● Velar Fronting: substitution of an alveolar for a velar (e.g.,

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Super-Supraglottic Swallow. A swallowing maneuver that helps close the airway entrance before and during the swallow; it helps close the false vocal folds by tilting the arytenoid cartilage anteriorly to the base of the epiglottis before and during the swallow; arytenoids are tilted when the breath is held and the patient bears down; to implement this maneuver, ask the patient to: ● inhale and hold the breath tightly by bearing down ● swallow while holding the breath and bearing down

Supraglottic Swallow Maneuver. A procedure to reduce or control aspiration while modifying swallowing behavior during the oral phase of the swallow; teaches the client to voluntarily protect the airway. ● Ask the patient to inhale and hold the breath ● Place food in the mouth ● Ask the patient to tilt the head back and swallow ● Teach the patient to cough after each swallow to clear any residual food from the pharynx

Swallow Reflex. A series of reflexive actions needed to complete the swallow act; includes the reflexive elevation of the soft palate, closure of the airway, peristalsis (constriction of the pharyngeal constrictors), relaxation of the cricopharyngeal muscle to passage of food into the esophagus; often delayed in patients with dysphagia; may be triggered by stimulating the base of the anterior faucial arch.

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Terminal Response. The final response targeted in Shaping. Time-Out (TO). Time-out from positive reinforcement; also described as pause-and-talk as used in Stuttering treatment and in reducing a variety of undesirable behaviors; direct response reduction procedure in which one of the following three contingencies is placed on a behavior to be reduced: (1) a brief period of no reinforcement (nonexclusion TO); (2) exclusion of the person from the stream of activity (exclusion TO), but not from the current environment; or (3) removal of the person from the current environment and placing the person in an isolated place for a brief period (Isolation TO).

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Tongue Thrust. A deviant swallow in which the tongue is pushed forward against the central incisors.

Topic Initiation.

A pragmatic language skill to initiate conversation on a topic; a frequent language intervention target; procedures described under Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Topic Maintenance. A pragmatic language skill to maintain conversation for socially acceptable time periods; a frequent language intervention target; procedures described under Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Topographic Sequence of Treatment. Sequencing treatment based on response complexity; most clients learn better if the target skills are simplified in the initial stages of therapy. ● Begin treatment with simpler topographic levels (words, phrases) and increase the topographic complexity in gradual steps (sentences, conversational speech) ● In treating articulation disorders, begin teaching a phoneme at the word or syllable level; as the client becomes proficient in producing the sound at this level, shift training to the phrase level; finally provide training in conversational speech 517

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or phrases (e.g., cups or two cups); as the client becomes proficient in producing the morpheme at this level, shift training to sentences and conversational speech ● In fluency therapy, train such skills as gentle onset, prolonged speech, and airflow management initially in words and phrases and subsequently in sentences and conversational speech ● In voice therapy, use single vowel productions (e.g., /a/) and words to improve voice quality; subsequently, shift training to sentences and conversational speech

Topography.

Description of natural and physical properties of an object or event; topographic aspects of skills refer to their physical form or shape including how complex they are, and how they appear, sound, and feel.

Total Communication. The simultaneous use of multiple modes of expression to enhance communication; includes speech, gestures, informal and formal (e.g., American Sign Language and AMER-IND) signs, and facial expressions.

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tients to produce laryngeal speech with the help of a voice prosthesis; the tracheal wall is punctured to create a small tunnel into the esophagus; the puncture acts as a shunt to allow air into the esophagus through a Voice Prosthesis inserted into the opening; air goes up through the P-E Segment and results in the production of sound. Andrews, M. L. (1995). Manual of voice treatment: Pediatrics to geriatrics. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Casper, J. K., & Colton, R. H. (1993). Clinical manual for laryngectomy and head and neck cancer rehabilitation. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.

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Training Broad munication for the speechless; used in teaching Augmentative Communication Gestural-Assisted (Aided).

Training Broad.

An approach to treating articulation disorders in which several sounds are treated simultaneously; practice, limited on any one sound, is given over a broad range of sounds; contrasted with Training Deep.

Training Criterion. A rule that specifies when an exemplar or a target skill has met a specified performance level; a 90% correct response rate is an often accepted training criterion. ● Specify a training criterion in measurable terms (e.g., 9 out of 10 correct responses) ● Continue training until that criterion is met ● Probe when the training criterion is met ● If the probe criterion (90% correct in untrained contexts) is not met, resume training

Training Deep. An approach to treating articulation disorders in which one or a few sounds are trained intensively; other sounds are selected for training only when the child has mastered the initial targets; contrasted with Training Broad.

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Transcortical Motor Aphasia Transcortical Motor Aphasia. A type of nonfluent aphasia characterized by agrammatic, paraphasic, and telegraphic speech; differential diagnosis is made on the basis of intact repetition skills; lesion or lesions, often sparing the Broca’s area, are found deep in the frontal lobe or above or below Broca’s area. See Aphasia; Treatment of Aphasia: Specific Types.

Transcortical Sensory Aphasia. A type of fluent aphasia that is similar to Wernicke’s aphasia; the lesion or lesions, often sparing Wernicke’s area, are found in the temporoparietal regions; characterized by fluent speech, poor auditory comprehension, impaired naming, paraphasic speech, and echolalia.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in Adults. An injury to the brain; may be Penetrating (Open-Head) Injury or Nonpenetrating (Closed-Head) Injury; major symptoms include restlessness, irritation, disorientation to time and place, disorganized and inconsistent responses; impaired memory, attention, reasoning, drawing, naming, and repetition; also known as craniocerebral trauma; immediate concern is medical; long-term concern is rehabilitation.

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ten instructions, alarms, posters, verbal reminders of activities and appointments) ● Repeat treatment trials ● Improve selective attention and comprehension by asking the patient to: • match pictures to sentences • follow spoken instructions • retell a message to another person • answer simple questions ● Work closely with health care workers; teach them to • recognize the client’s problems • respond promptly to positive changes in communication skills • provide additional stimuli as needed ● Work with family members; teach them to • prompt the client when there is hesitation • model appropriate behaviors • reinforce the behaviors naturally and sustain those behaviors ● Increase awareness of deficits • use simple explanations to describe the problem to the patient • give contingent feedback on problem behaviors • use group therapy to allow the patient to see that others have similar problems ● Continue group treatment to have peer modeling, monitoring, and self-awareness of problems ● Begin to diminish special stimuli and reminders as performance improves toward the end of the intermediate stage ● Begin to teach Self-Control (Self-Monitoring) skills ● Begin to teach compensatory skills Treatment During the Late Stage ● Train more complex activities that enhance independence

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TBI: Treatment Procedures involved in performing an action (e.g., steps in preparing a breakfast) • request information relative to time, date, and so forth • request others to modify their speech (e.g., teach the client to request others to speak slowly or to repeat) • rehearse important information (e.g., teach the client to self-talk about how to perform such activities as fixing lunch or changing light bulbs) • write down instructions, appointments, important information, and so forth • ask for written instructions from people • use active instead of passive cues (an alarm instead of a reminder in a diary that may not be consulted) • use electronic devices (digital watches that display time, day, and date; auditorily signal appointments); use data bank watches that store messages and appointments; use electronic pill boxes that remind the patient to take medications; use microcassette recorders to record lectures, instructions, and discourse they can listen to later; use hand-held electronic spell checkers; use notebook computers for more complex information management • limit distractions or modify environment by finding quiet places to study or rearrange work environments • keep possessions at specific and constant places to improve access • cue himself or herself to activities, names, paces, and appointments ● Teach organizational strategies by teaching the patient to: • separate relevant from irrelevant material • summarize, highlight, and take notes • self-monitor ● Ask patients to copy symbols, letters, and words that commonly occur in their surroundings (e.g., signs that read, ‘‘No drinking, smoking, and eating’’) 527

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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in Children • teach family members and others to recognize reasons for oppositional behaviors (e.g., oppositional behaviors may diminish if the demands are modified or tasks are simplified) Beukelman, D. R., & Yorkston, K. M. (1991). Communication disorders following traumatic brain injury: Management of cognitive, language, and motor impairments. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Bilger, E. D. (Ed.). (1990). Traumatic brain injury. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Hegde, M. N. (1998). A coursebook on aphasia and other neurogenic language disorders (2nd ed.). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Brookshire, R. H. (1997). An introduction to neurogenic communication disorders (5th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Mosby Year Book. Ylvisaker, M. (1985). Head injury rehabilitation: Children and adolescents. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in Children. Cerebral injury due to external force; may be Penetrating (OpenHead) Injury or Nonpenetrating (Closed-Head) Injury; communicative disorders are a common consequence of TBI; treatment procedures described under Traumatic Brain Injury, Treatment and many described under Language Disorders in Children are generally applicable with the following special considerations: ● Assess residual language and communication difficulties ● Design a treatment program that will address the residual deficits ● Consider the child’s social and family communication needs ● Work closely with educators and teach skills that help academic achievement: • discuss the child’s needs with other school professionals including teachers, educational psychologists, reading specialists, and others • develop a treatment plan that addresses the concerns of educators

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Bilger, E. D. (Ed.). (1990). Traumatic brain injury. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Mira, M. P., Tucker, B. F., & Tyler, J. S. (1992). Traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

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Treatment. Application of a variable that can induce changes; use of any effective procedure in teaching new communicative skills; behaviorally, management of contingent relations between antecedents, responses, and consequences; conceptually, a rearrangement of communicative relationships between a speaker and his or her listener.

Treatment of Communicative Disorders: General Procedures That Apply Across Disorders. Common procedures used in treating most if not all disorders of communication; modified to suit the individual client, his or her specific problems, the specific target behaviors, and in light of the performance data. ● Assess the client • determine the diagnosis • describe the strengths and limitations of the client • describe the client’s current level of communicative performance ● Evaluate the client’s family constellation • describe the family support and resources • describe the social, educational, or occupational demands made on the client ● Select functional, client-specific target behaviors • select behaviors that, when treated, will have the greatest effects on the client’s communication in social situations • select both short- and long-term targets • define the dismissal criterion ● Establish the pretreatment measures or baselines of target behaviors • select stimuli for evoking the target behaviors • repeat the measures to establish reliability • use the Baseline Evoked Trials and Baseline Modeled Trials 531

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Treatment: General Procedures • shift treatment, in progressive steps, to more complex levels as the client meets the probe criterion • always train the target behaviors in conversational speech with natural consequences ● Implement the maintenance program • train family members, teachers, friends, and professional caregivers in supporting the client’s communicative behaviors • teach them to evoke the target behaviors and reinforce the client naturally • shift training to nonclinical settings • invite other persons to treatment sessions • have family members conduct informal treatment sessions at home • have teachers focus on the target skills you teach and integrate those skills in the classroom work • teach the client to self-monitor his or her errors and target behaviors • teach the client to count his or her relevant behaviors • teach the client to self-correct mistakes • teach the client to cue himself or herself • teach the client to pause soon after an error response is produced • dismiss the client when responses are reliably produced in natural settings ● Follow up the client • set up a schedule for follow-up • follow up a client for a duration necessary to show maintenance • take a conversational speech sample during follow-up sessions • measure the production of relevant communicative skills • recommend booster treatment if the skills have deteriorated ● Arrange for booster treatment • give the same or better treatment 533

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wise progression of treatment used in treating disorders of communication; the sequence may be based on response topography, response modes, multiple targets, training and maintenance, and response consequences. ● Sequence and simplify the target behaviors topographically • syllables or words • phrases • sentences that are imitated or otherwise controlled • sentences that are more spontaneously produced • sentences that are fully spontaneously produced • conversational speech • begin treatment at the simplest level that is necessary for the client; do not routinely start training at the syllable or word level; experiment to see if the client can manage at a higher level ● Sequence the response modes • begin treatment with imitation as the initial response mode if necessary • move to evoked responses ● Sequence the multiple targets • teach the most useful behaviors earlier than the less useful ones • teach the simpler behaviors earlier than the more complex behaviors • teach first behaviors that are building blocks for other behaviors • when one target behavior reaches the probe criterion, select another behavior or shift training to more complex level on the behavior under training ● Sequence training and maintenance strategies 534

Treatment of Procedural Modifications • initially establish the behavior under structured clinical situations • loosen the structure gradually and make treatment conditions more similar to natural conditions • shift treatment to more natural conditions in and around the clinic • shift training to natural conditions away from the clinic • shift training to home situations, but do this as soon as possible (do not wait until the last stage of training) ● Sequence response consequences or feedback variations • give more frequent and consistent feedback in the beginning • reduce the amount of feedback as the learning stabilizes • give tangible reinforcers if necessary and only in the beginning • shift to social and more natural reinforcers • train others to give natural feedback in naturalistic settings Hegde, M. N. (1998). Treatment procedures in communicative disorders (3rd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Treatment of Communicative Disorders: Procedural Modifications. Changes made in treatment procedures because of their ineffectiveness or less than optimum effectiveness; modifications may be made in antecedents, responses, and consequences; treatment procedures, not principles, are modified; based on performance data. ● Modification of antecedents • change stimuli that are ineffective in evoking the target responses • shift from pictures to objects • shift from line drawings to photographs • shift from abstract to concrete stimuli • shift from pictorial representation to enacted stimuli • discard clinical stimuli in favor of stimuli from the client’s home • model if evoking is not effective 535

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Treatment Evoked Trials selection; see Treatment Selection Criteria; treatment evaluation involves: ● Group or single-subject experimental designs ● Comparison of treatment versus no treatment to show that treatment is better than no treatment ● Ruling-out of extraneous variables to show that it was the treatment, and not some other factor (e.g., maturation, teacher’s work, parents’ actions), responsible for the documented effects ● Replication by the experimenter and others to show that the technique is effective (or not effective) when applied in different settings, by different clinicians, and in treating different clients Hegde, M. N. (1994). Clinical research in communicative disorders: Principles and strategies (2nd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

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Structured and temporally separated opportunities for the client to produce a target response in the absence of clinician’s modeling; useful in establishing target behaviors, especially with clients who perform better under a highly structured treatment session. ● Place stimulus item in front of client or demonstrate an action ● Ask the relevant predetermined question ● Wait a few seconds for client to respond ● If the response is correct, reinforce the client ● If the response is incorrect, give corrective feedback ● Record the response on the recording sheet ● Remove stimulus item ● Wait 2–3 seconds to signify the end of the trial ● Begin the next trial ● Calculate the percent correct response rate

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Evaluating the Levels of Evidence to Select or Reject Treatment Procedures. Note that the criteria are hierarchically arranged based on the levels of evidence; a higher criterion is more stringent, more difficult to meet, although more preferable than a lower criterion; a treatment technique is accepted or rejected based on the level of evidence on which it is advocated: ● Level 1. Expert Advocacy. Some techniques are simply advocated by experts; no evidence of any kind is offered; may sound logical, appealing, and the advocate may be influential or well-known; reject all such procedures ● Level 2. Unreplicated, uncontrolled case studies. Some techniques may have been clinically tried with a few clients and a case study published; the study has not been repeated (replicated); no control groups or controlled conditions were used; clients have improved under treatment; no assurance that treatment was effective because extraneous variables have not been ruled out; because at least improvement with the technique was documented, you may select this type of treatment and use it with caution ● Level 3. Replicated, uncontrolled case studies. A technique has been applied more than once and multiple case studies have been published; no control groups

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clients during treatment. ● Select treatment targets after a thorough assessment ● Select functional targets that are useful to the client ● Select targets that are linguistically and culturally appropriate to the client ● Select skills that can make an immediate and socially significant difference in the communicative skills of the client ● Select behaviors that serve as building blocks for more complex functional skills

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Treatment Variables Treatment Variables. Technical operations performed by the clinician to create, increase, or decrease behaviors; these include: ● Antecedents or stimuli used in treatment, including modeling, instructions, demonstrations, manual guidance, pictures, objects, recreated events, storytelling (by the clinician), topics of conversation, and so forth ● Consequences or feedback the clinician gives, including verbal praise, tokens, tangible reinforcers, opportunities to indulge in various activities, privileges offered by parents, and so forth

Tremor. A pattern of shaking, defined as an involuntary rhythmical movement of small amplitude.

Trials. Measurable sequentially repeatable opportunities to produce a response; may be more or less structured; include Baseline Evoked Trials, Baseline Modeled Trials, Treatment Evoked Trials, and Treatment Modeled Trials. Hegde, M. N. (1998). Treatment procedures in communicative disorders (3rd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

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Unconditioned Response. A response given to unconditioned stimulus; typically a response without a conditioning or learning history (e.g., salivary response to food in the mouth); see Conditioned Response.

Unconditioned Stimulus. A stimulus that elicits a response without the benefit of conditioning or learning (e.g., food in the mouth that automatically elicits a salivary response); see Conditioned Stimulus.

Unilateral Upper Motor Neuron Dysarthria. A type of motor speech disorder; its neuropathology is damage to the upper motor neurons that supply cranial and spinal nerves involved in speech production; the dominant speech problem is imprecise production of consonants; select appropriate treatment targets and procedures described under Treatment of Dysarthria; Dysarthria: Specific Types.

Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis. Paralysis of one of the two vocal folds; leads to breathy voice and reduced intensity.

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Variable Interval Schedule (VI). An intermittent reinforcement schedule in which the time duration between reinforcers is varied around an average; not as applicable as the Fixed Interval or Variable Ratio Schedules in the treatment of communicative disorders; difficult to use in routine clinical work; efficient with electronic programming equipment.

Variable Ratio Schedule (VR). An intermittent reinforcement schedule in which the number of responses needed to earn a reinforcer is varied around an average; more effective in generating response rates that last; useful in a maintenance strategy. ● Vary the number of responses required for reinforcement from one occasion to the other ● Initially, reinforce on a smaller ratio schedule (e.g., a VR 4) and increase the ratio gradually (e.g., VR 6, VR8, VR12, etc.)

Velar Assimilation. A phonological process in which a velar sound is used in place of a nonvelar sound (e.g., /g/ for /d/); see Articulation and Phonological Disorders.

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Verbal Apraxia possibly because the true folds have some pathology; characterized by low pitch, monotone, decreased loudness, Harshness, and arrhythmic voicing. ● Teach the client to take a prolonged inhalation through the open mouth and sustained exhalation without phonation ● Teach the client Inhalation Phonation (this is usually true fold phonation) ● Ask the client to produce inhalation phonation–exhalation phonation on the same breath ● Ask the client to produce a matching exhalation phonation ● Have the client practice exhalation phonation ● Teach the client to vary the pitch ● Fade inhalation–exhalation; stabilize normal phonation in conversational speech

Verbal Apraxia. A motor speech disorder also known as apraxia of speech; characterized by difficulty in initiating and executing the movement patterns necessary to produce speech; not due to paralysis or weakness of the speech muscles; thought to be a motor planning disorder; see Apraxia of Speech.

Verbal Corrective Feedback. A method to reduce incorrect responses in treatment; feedback is presented soon after an incorrect response is made; includes such verbal feedback as ‘‘No,’’ ‘‘Wrong,’’ or ‘‘Not correct’’; often combined with Nonverbal Corrective Feedback.

Verbal Praise. A type of positive reinforcement in which the client is praised for giving correct responses or for imitating modeled responses; a response consequence known to increase the frequency of target behaviors. ● Praise the client promptly for producing or imitating a correct response ● Use such phrases as ‘‘Good Job!’’ ‘‘I like that!’’ ‘‘That was correct!’’ ‘‘Excellent!’’ and so forth; select the phrases and words that are appropriate for the client’s age, education, and cultural background 547

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Verbal Prompt. A verbal stimulus that helps evoke an unsure response; hints of everyday life; see Prompts.

Verbal Stimulus Generalization.

Production of unreinforced responses when untrained verbal stimuli are presented; measured on a Probe. ● Present the same physical stimulus as used in training (e.g., the picture of two books used in teaching an exemplar of the plural morpheme) ● Ask a question other than the one used in training to evoke the response (e.g., if you asked ‘‘What do you see?’’ on training trials, ask ‘‘What are these?’’ on these probe trials) ● Do not model and do not provide any response consequences ● Record the response ● Present at least 10 trials, each involving a different picture and probe question (different from the training question)

Vibrotactile Hearing Aid. A type of hearing aid that delivers sound by patterns of vibrations felt on the skin; a good supplement to speech reading

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Vocal Fold Paralysis.

Unilateral or bilateral paralysis of the folds that results in fixated fold or folds; unilateral more common; often due to trauma or accidental cutting of the recurrent laryngeal nerve; results in aphonia or dysphonia; Teflon or collagen may be injected into the paralyzed fold to make it bulge and help approximate; collagen is currently preferred over Teflon; concern is more medical in the case of bilateral vocal fold paralysis because of such associated problems as weakness or paralysis of the tongue, pharynx, or velum; respiratory survival and feeding are the main concerns; in the case of unilateral vocal fold paralysis, voice therapy may be appropriate, although the effects may be temporary and the goals may be limited to having the client produce functional voice: ● Model and reinforce a higher-pitched voice that might improve the voice ● Use the Half-Swallow Boom ● Use Digital Manipulation of the Larynx ● Try different Head Positioning maneuvers

Vocal Fry.

Popcorn popping or bubbling type of voice occurring toward the lower end of the pitch range; may be slightly hoarse; a normal characteristic that may be abnormal if exhibited too frequently.

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Vocal Nodules. Benign lesions of the vocal folds; generally bilateral; found in the anterior one-third and posterior twothirds of the true vocal folds; symptoms may include Hoarseness, Harshness, periodic Aphonia, frequent throat clearing, Hard Glottal Attacks, tension, and a dry vocal tract; result of vocal abuse; voice therapy designed to reduce vocally abusive behaviors is preferred over surgical intervention; see Treatment of Vocally Abusive Behaviors under Voice Disorders; essentially: ● Prescribe mandatory vocal rest if surgery has been performed to remove the nodules ● Reduce Vocally Abusive Behaviors ● Increase the breath support for speech ● Reduce vocal intensity ● Use Specific Normal Voice Facilitation Techniques (described under Voice Disorders) to teach the client to produce healthy voice

Voice Disorders. Various disorders of communication related to faulty, abnormal, or inappropriate phonation, loudness, pitch, and resonance; causes include vocally abusive behaviors, trauma to the laryngeal mechanism, and physical diseases; many treated both medically and behaviorally; some only medically; others only behaviorally. ● Voice Disorders of Loudness. Socially inappropriate voice that is too loud or soft.

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priate pitch; speech at the low end of one’s pitch range, which requires too much effort and force; or speech at the high end of the range, which causes fatigue. ● Voice Disorders of Phonation. Voice problems that result from vocal folds that are altered by vocally abusive behaviors, trauma, or diseases; voice that is characterized by varying degrees of breathiness, hoarseness, harshness, and pitch and loudness deviations. • Voice Disorders of Phonation: Abuse-Based. Such voice problems as hoarseness, breathiness, and harshness that result from vocal abuse, which often causes physical changes in the vocal folds • Voice Disorders of Phonation: Physically Based. Such voice problems as hoarseness, breathiness, and harshness that result from physical diseases; varied voice problems associated with laryngeal trauma. ● Voice Disorders of Resonance. Voice characterized by inappropriate resonance including Hypernasality and Hyponasality.

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settings and by teaching Self-Control (Self-Monitoring) skills Treatment of Excessively Loud Voice. Shape progressively softer voice in a client with too loud voice: ● Educate the client about his or her excessively loud voice; tape-record a sample of loud voice and let the client hear it; contrast it with soft voice recorded alternatively ● Instruct, demonstrate, and model voice at different loudness (e.g., whispered voice, a quiet voice that would not wake up a sleeping person, normal conversational voice, loud and louder voice) ● Model a quiet voice for the client and ask him or her to imitate it; use computerized program such as the VisiPitch to give visual feedback on intensity changes ● Start with words and phrases and move on to conversational speech; reinforce speech produced at desired intensity ● If it is necessary to start with a louder voice, reinforce progressively softer voice until the level is acceptable Treatment of Excessively Soft Voice. Shape progressively louder voice in a client with too soft voice: ● Make sure that the excessively soft voice is not due to such physical problems as hearing loss and vocal fold pathology ● Tape-record a speech sample to give feedback to the client about the excessively soft nature of his or her voice ● Experiment with pitch changes to see if a slight increase in the pitch level might produce a slightly louder voice; if so, teach the client to speak at that level ● Experiment with increased subglottic air pressure to see if loudness would improve; if so, ask the client to practice speaking with such increased air pressure ● Use the auditory masking on an audiometer to induce the Lombard effect (increased vocal intensity under au554

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Treatment of Pitch Disorders Treatment to Raise the Baseline Pitch ● Instruct the client on pitch, its variations, and acceptable range ● Model different levels of pitch for the client ● Experiment with the client to see if he or she can produce a desirable pitch even if briefly ● Tape-record the client’s desirable pitch and use it as a model for self-imitation ● Provide also a live model or a mechanical model on such computerized instruments as Visi-Pitch, B & K Real-Time Frequency Analyzer ● Use such instruments to give immediate feedback during training trials or durations ● Begin treatment with single words, preferably those that begin with vowels; have the client produce them with the desirable pitch ● Increase the response complexity by moving to words, phrases, sentences, and conversational speech ● Use oral reading to stabilize the desired pitch ● Provide mechanical as well as live social reinforcers ● Implement a maintenance program by conducting informal treatment in nonclinical settings ● Encourage the client to use the new pitch in all speaking situations 555

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topharyngeal incompetence as the source of resonance problems; do not offer behavioral voice therapy for such cases unless the organic problems are eliminated or significantly improved by surgical or prosthetic means, and clients are now good candidates for voice therapy • work with the prosthodontist in the client-specific fabrication of a prosthetic device • assess speech before and after surgical and prosthetic treatment ● Use biofeedback instruments to monitor and reinforce appropriate oral and nasal resonance Treatment of Hypernasality ● Assess Hypernasality and treat it only when there is adequate or at least marginal velopharyngeal adequacy and the disorder needs behavioral management ● Use treatment procedures described under Hypernasality Treatment of Hyponasality ● Assess Hyponasality and treat it only when it is clear that too broad a pharyngeal flap or too big an obturator bulb is not the source of reduced nasality ● Be aware that very few persons exhibit hyponasality with no physical basis ● Use treatment procedures described under Hyponasality

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under which these behaviors are most likely (e.g., a child may be more likely to indulge in noisy vocal behaviors while playing with certain aggressive toys; discuss these with the client, the parents, or both) ● Ask the client to measure his or her vocally abusive behaviors for a few days and graph their frequency on a daily basis to establish the baselines of vocally abusive behaviors in natural settings; give them a prepared recording sheet ● Ask the parents of young children to count and graph vocally abusive behaviors on a daily basis ● Design and implement a program to reduce the vocally abusive behaviors • use such treatment techniques as Changing Criterion to shape down the frequency of vocally abusive behaviors • ask the client, parents, a spouse, teacher, or a friend to help establish the reliability of measures of vocally abusive behaviors; give them a prepared recording sheet to document the occurrence of such behaviors • in progressive steps, decrease the frequency of specified vocally abusive behaviors (e.g., the first week after a baseline of 10 episodes of screaming by a child, a criterion of 7 episodes may be held; in following weeks, the number is systematically reduced finally to zero) • in progressive steps, decrease the duration of vocally abusive behaviors (e.g., in case of a child whose baserate of talks after dinner is 20 minutes, reduce the duration of talk in gradual steps over a period of several days; consider imposing periods of silence at times when the abusive behavior is highly likely) • eliminate a condition under which a vocally abusive behavior is highly likely (e.g., teach the child to play with less aggressive themes and toys; gradually reduce the frequency of play involving toys that promote vocal abuse; in the case of an adult, design a schedule with which visits to noisy and smoke-filled bars where the

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Andrews, M. L. (1999). Manual of voice treatment: Pediatrics through geriatrics (2nd ed.). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Boone, D. R., & McFarlane, S. C. (2000). The voice and voice therapy (6th ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Deem, J. F., & Miller, L. (2000). Manual of voice therapy (2nd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Specific Normal Voice Facilitating Techniques. A collection of procedures used in voice therapy; most of them described by Boone and McFarlane (2000); most are based on clinical experience; little or no controlled experimental evidence to demonstrate their effectiveness and efficacy; need more research data. Auditory Feedback. Method of providing feedback of client’s own voice to help improve its quality; amplified

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real-time feedback may be the most effective in modifying speech quality. ● Use an instrument such as the Kay Facilitator (Kay Elemetrics), which provides real-time amplified feedback of client’s voice through head phones; also provides delayed auditory feedback, loop feedback, metronomic pacing, and masking noise ● Ask the client to listen carefully to his or her voice as the feedback is provided; teach the client to use a different voice facilitation approach (e.g., chanting or glottal fry) ● Ask the client to pay attention to improvement in voice quality when a facilitating approach is used; contrast this with the typical deviant voice of the patient Chant-Talk Method. A voice therapy technique in which words are spoken in a connected manner, with even stress, prolongation of sounds, soft glottal attack, and continuously with the absence of stress for individual words; recommended for clients with hyperfunctional voice including Hard Glottal Attacks. ● Ask the patient to reduce the effort required to speak ● Play a recording of a chant and model the method ● Ask the patient to imitate the tape-recorded production by using a chant ● Ask the patient to read aloud by alternating the chant voice with the regular one ● Ask the patient to read for 20 seconds at a time ● Playback oral reading samples of the patient’s voice and ask him or her to differentiate the chanted voice from the normal one ● Fade the chant and maintain normal voice without the chant Chewing Technique. A voice therapy technique that requires patients to imagine that they are chewing food while voicing; recommended for reducing vocal hy560

Voice: Specific Facilitating Techniques perfunction, improving voice quality, and reducing vocal stress. ● Describe and justify the procedure to the client ● Let the client face a mirror along with you ● Ask the client to pretend that he or she is chewing some food ● Teach exaggerated open-mouth chewing motions ● Pretend to move the food from one side of the mouth to the other ● Ask the client to phonate softly various sounds by constantly moving the tongue around in chewing motions ● Ask the client to say words while chewing ● Ask the client to chew and count ● Ask the client to chew and produce connected speech ● Fade chewing movements Digital Manipulation of the Larynx. Physical manipulation of the larynx to promote desirable voice quality; may be used to reduce vocal pitch and decrease laryngeal tension. ● Use digital pressure to lower the pitch • Ask the patient to prolong a vowel • Apply slight finger pressure to the thyroid cartilage as the vowel is prolonged (the pitch will drop) • Fade the digital pressure and let the client practice the lower pitch ● Lower the larynx to reduce tension • apply a slight downward pressure with the middle finger and the thumb just above the thyroid notch • ask the client to prolong vowels with the larynx in the lowered position • use other voice facilitating techniques • fade the downward pressure on the larynx Glottal Attack Changes. Modifying either hard glottal attacks in whom they are a problem (typically in persons who abuse their voice) or inducing slightly harder 561

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glottal attacks, which may be beneficial to some (typically in persons with unilateral vocal fold paralysis); thus, the method includes two opposite manipulations applied to opposite problems. ● Reduce hard glottal attacks • educate the client about the harmful effects of hard glottal attacks • model and demonstrate hard and soft glottal attacks; tape-record the client’s hard glottal attacks and let the client listen to them to understand their characteristics • begin training on soft initiation of voice with monosyllabic words that contain the /h/ in the initial position; when the client learns to initiate the /h/ words softly, train with words containing initial unvoiced consonants and then with words containing vowels • shape gentle onset with whisper as the initial response; ask the client to whisper the initial vowel and increase the intensity gradually until a soft phonation is heard • use also the yawn-sigh method to reduce hard glottal attacks • use also the chant to reduce hard glottal attacks • use simultaneous chewing and chanting to reduce hard glottal attacks • increase the response complexity gradually until the client produces conversational speech with soft glottal contacts ● Teach harder glottal attacks • educate the client about hard and soft forms of voice initiation • demonstrate and model harder glottal attacks by producing such words as pop, peep, bob, and beet in a sudden plosive manner; ask the patient to imi-

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yngologist; as the voice improves, they are likely to improve as well Half-Swallow Boom. A method of treating low loudness and air wastage from the vocal folds; recommended for clients with Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis or Mutational Falsetto. ● Ask the client to swallow and, as this action is still in progress, say ‘‘boom’’ ● Let the client produce ‘‘boom’’ in a low-pitched voice ● Ask the client to say ‘‘boom’’ louder and with less breathiness ● Have the client discriminate the normal production from the ‘‘‘boom’’ production with the help of taperecorded samples ● Teach the client to turn the head first to one side and then to the other and say ‘‘boom’’ each time ● Lower the chin while saying ‘‘boom’’ ● Ask the client to add sounds and words to ‘‘boom’’ (e.g., ‘‘boom /i/’’; ‘‘boom one’’) ● Teach the client to add phrases and sentences ● Fade out the boom and swallow ● Ask the client to lift the chin up and bring the head back to the midline as he or she produces normal speech Head Positioning. Manipulation of head positions to promote better voice quality; recommended especially for clients with neurological disorders including dysarthria; may be used with clients who have hyperfunctional voice. ● Give instructions, model different head positions, demonstrate their effects on voice, and justify the procedure to the client ● Experiment with different head positions to find the one that promotes better voice (e.g., head rotated 564

Voice: Specific Facilitating Techniques toward left or right; neck flexed downward with the face looking down); ask the client to produce some prolonged vowels (e.g., /i/, /I/, /o/, or /u/) as different head positions are tried to identify the best position ● Ask the client to hold the head position that helps produce the best voice ● Ask the client to produce words, phrases, and sentences ● Gradually fade the unusual head position into a more normal position Inhalation Phonation. A technique of voice therapy designed to evoke true vocal fold vibrations in clients who are aphonic or those who exhibit ventricular phonation. ● Raise your shoulders, inhale, and phonate a highpitched hum ● Raise your shoulders, inhale, phonate the highpitched hum and lower the shoulders; exhale, and produce the same sound; repeat this ● Teach the patient to produce inhalation phonation ● Teach the client to produce inhalation and exhalation phonation with corresponding shoulder movements ● Demonstrate the movement from the high-pitched voice to the exhaled low-pitched voice ● Reinforce the client’s attempts to bring the pitch down ● Fade the shoulder movements ● Have the client practice single words until a normal sounding voice is stabilized ● Move on to more complex responses (phrases and sentences) Laryngeal Massage. A technique of voice therapy in which the laryngeal area is gently massaged and manipulated to improve vocal quality; recommended for clients with functional voice disorders with no organic 565

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component characterized by a larynx that is positioned high during speech with some evidence of neck tension; some clinicians first try yawn-sigh with these clients and use laryngeal massage if the first attempt fails. ● Ask the client to prolong vowels as you massage the larynx through the steps specified ● Encircling the hyoid bone with the thumb and the middle finger, make a circular motion with your fingers while applying light pressure ● Repeat the procedure, this time with the fingers working posteriorly from the thyroid notch ● Repeat the procedure at the posterior borders of the thyroid cartilage ● Gently move the larynx in downward and lateral directions by placing the fingers over the superior borders of the thyroid cartilage ● Reinforce any improvement in the client’s voice Masking. A technique of voice therapy to treat clients with functional aphonia and those with poor voice quality because of inadequate auditory monitoring of one’s own voice; masking noise introduced through headphones. ● Use a standard audiometer to introduce masking noise; do so without any explanation ● Ask the client to read orally; turn the masking on and off for brief periods ● Tape-record the client’s reading to document possible changes in voice quality or the emergence of voice in the whispering aphonic patient ● Playback the tape-recorded sample to demonstrate improved voice quality or voiced productions by an aphonic client; contrast voice with and without masking ● Ask the client to match his or her improved voice or emergence of phonation without masking

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the voice improves or phonation emerges, abruptly end masking; repeat this process until the client can sustain the gains Nasal/Glide Stimulation. A voice treatment technique in which nasal glide consonants are used to promote better voice quality in patients with functional dysphonia, spasmodic dysphonia, and voice problems associated with vocal fold thickening, nodules, and polyps; words loaded with nasal glides seem to be produced with least effort. ● Prepare a list of words with nasal consonants in them (e.g., man, moon, many, morning, many men, moon man, morning singing) ● Prepare also a list of words that are repeated with /a/ inserted between repetitions (e.g., man a man a man or wing a wing a wing; use this list as an alternative) ● Prepare a list of words with glide consonants /r/ and /l/ combined with nasal sounds (e.g., marrow, married women, only lonely memory, Laura ran around) ● Prepare a list of words with /l/ and /r/ that are repeated with /a/ inserted between each repetition (lee a lee a lee or rah a rah a rah) ● Have the client practice the selected words; reinforce improved voice quality ● Gradually move on to words, phrases, and sentences containing other consonants to improve voice in meaningful, spontaneous speech Open-Mouth Approach. Oral openness during speech to increase oral resonance, reduce speaking effort, induce more relaxed speech, and to promote appropriate loudness, pitch, and quality of voice. ● Give feedback on lack of mouth opening during speech; use a mirror if necessary

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pet (greater mouth opening); contrast that with the speech of a ventriloquist (minimum mouth opening) ● Ask the client to imitate the two ways of speaking that you model ● Ask the patient to tilt the head down and speak ● Teach the client to self-monitor oral openness in natural settings ● Let the client practice speech with oral openness and reinforce for doing so Pushing Approach. A voice therapy technique to promote better approximation of vocal folds; appropriate for increasing vocal loudness. ● Instruct and demonstrate pushing ● Ask the client to push down on the arm of the chair or push up by trying to lift the chair by gripping the bottom of the seat while seated ● Ask the client to phonate and push simultaneously ● Reinforce the louder voice that typically results ● Increase the length of utterances with the louder voice ● Fade pushing Relaxation Training. A method to teach deep muscle relaxation with or without the help of biofeedback (e.g., electromyographic feedback); recommended for clients with excessive tension, anxiety, and stress; may be appropriate for some voice clients because of their excessive muscle tension. ● Use biofeedback instruments ● If no instruments are used, give instructions to contract and relax muscles ● Teach the client to discriminate between tensed and relaxed muscles by alternately asking him or her to tense and relax selected muscles (e.g., shoulder, neck, or jaw muscles)

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training; ask the client to relax one set of muscles and tense them to appreciate the difference ● Manipulate head positions to induce relaxation ● Ask the client to imagine speaking situations that induce greater tension and immediately let the client relax the speech muscles ● Use relaxing head movements (positions) if necessary ● Use other appropriate voice therapy techniques in combination with relaxation ● Stabilize a relaxed speaking posture and improved voice quality Respiration Training. Teaching clients to manage inhalation–exhalation cycles optimally for the purpose of phonation and sustained vocalization; recommended for clients with functional voice disorders who do not seem to use their breath stream properly in voice production. ● Explain the relation between breathing and speaking and between airflow and vocal fold vibrations ● Teach the client to inhale more quickly, more deeply than usual but exhale more slowly and in a controlled manner; to extend exhalation, ask the client to count to 5 slowly and then to 10 slowly ● Ask the client to prolong vowels to teach controlled and prolonged exhalation that would better support speech; in progressive steps, teach the client to prolong a vowel for about 20 seconds ● Teach the client to inhale quickly between utterances ● Teach good posture, which promotes normal airflow management Tongue Position Modification. Manipulating tongue position in the oral cavity to affect changes in voice quality and resonance; tongue typically positioned too far back results in cul-de-sac resonance; tongue typically

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carried too far forward creates ‘‘thin voice’’ giving the baby talk effect. ● Teach clients to carry tongue in its neutral position ● Modify the excessively backward tongue position ● Modify the excessively forward tongue position ● Instruct, model, demonstrate, and reinforce correct tongue positions Vocal Rest. A voice therapy technique that requires little or no talking, typically for 4–7 days; vocal rest may be complete or partial. ● Recommend mandatory vocal rest for clients who have undergone any form of laryngeal surgery; this helps promote normal healing of the surgical wounds ● Recommend vocal rest as initial treatment for clients who have such types of laryngeal lesions as vocal fold hemorrhage and mucosal tear to let the healing process begin ● Recommend partial (modified) vocal rest for clients who have a severe cold (and resulting laryngeal inflammation), vocal nodules, and vocal fold edema; note that partial vocal rest means talking only when absolutely essential and with appropriate vocal habits ● Instruct the client either to totally avoid or markedly reduce • speaking • shouting or screaming • singing or humming • whispering • coughing or throat clearing • laughing or crying • lifting or pushing heavy objects ● Have a family member monitor these activities ● Teach the client to keep a record of such activities ● Teach the client to self-monitor

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Voice: Specific Facilitating Techniques Warble Tone Approach. A voice treatment method in which the vocal pitch is constantly and continually shifted up and down to move the client out of the habitual monotonous pitch and thus to establish a pitch that is more appropriate to the client; recommended for clients with hoarse, strained, breathy, or rough voice regardless of its origin. ● Using a visual feedback device (such as the VisiPitch), model a tone that is varied up and down in pitch and ask the client to imitate what you model ● Ask the client to produce the vowel /i/, constantly varying the pitch (loudness should also vary with it); when the most desirable tone is heard, ask the client to extend it ● Begin fading the warble tone after a few successful trials; ask the client to reduce the warble portion of the tone and extend the steady, desirable portion of the tone; give several trials ● Withdraw the warble completely and have the client practice the desirable steady tone ● Introduce phrases with vowel-initial sounds in the first word of the phrase (e.g., even now, easy day), and ask the client to produce them with the new steady, desirable voice ● Use more complex utterances and sentences to stabilize the new voice Whisper-Phonation Method. A voice therapy technique that uses Prephonation Airflow to reduce Hard Glottal Attack; the client is required to whisper sustained vowel productions; gentle phonation is introduced as the vowel is being sustained. ● Ask the client to whisper monosyllabic words that have vowel initiates ● Teach the client to whisper the initial vowel very gently

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Yawn-Sigh Method. A voice therapy technique for clients with hypervocal function; uses the relaxing effects of the inspiratory yawn followed by an expiratory sigh and phonation. ● Instruct and demonstrate the relaxing effects of prolonged inspiration involved in a yawn and the relaxed phonation that results with a sigh ● Ask the client to yawn and then exhale slowly while phonating lightly ● Ask the client to say words that start with /h/ after each yawn ● Teach the client to produce a gentle, voiced sigh while exhaling ● Teach the client to produce an easy, prolonged, open-mouthed exhalation after each yawn ● Ask the client to skip the yawn and teach the client to inhale normally and exhale a prolonged sigh with the open mouth ● Ask the patient to say ‘‘hah’’ after beginning each sigh ● Ask the patient to say additional words all beginning with the glottal /h/ ● Ask the patient to blend in an easy, relaxed, phonation during the middle of a sigh ● Fade the sigh and move on to words, phrases, and sentences Andrews, M. L. (1999). Manual of voice treatment: Pediatrics through geriatrics (2nd ed.). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.

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Voice Prosthesis Boone, D. R., & McFarlane, S. C. (2000). The voice and voice therapy (6th ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Case, J. L. (1996). Clinical management of voice disorders. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Deem, J. F., & Miller, L. (2000). Manual of voice therapy (2nd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Voice Prosthesis. A small (1.8 to 3.6 cm) silicone device that has a valve at the back end and an opening at the front end; inserted into the tracheoesophageal puncture in patients who have undergone laryngectomy; allows air into the esophagus, which vibrates; the sound is shaped into speech; see Laryngectomy.

Voluntary Stuttering. A treatment target in fluent stuttering approach of Van Riper; for procedures see Stuttering, Treatment; Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Techniques or Programs.

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Wernicke’s Aphasia Wernicke’s Aphasia.

A type of aphasia caused by lesions in Wernicke’s area; characterized by fluent but meaningless speech, with impaired comprehension of speech; see Aphasia; Treatment of Aphasia: Specific Types.

Wernicke’s Area. The posterior portion of the superior temporal gyrus in the left hemisphere responsible for formulation and comprehension of language.

Whole Language Approach. An approach to teaching language and literacy that requires the teaching of all aspects of language (speaking, reading, writing) simultaneously; lacking in experimental support and now highly questioned; see Language Disorders in Children; Treatment of Language Disorders: Specific Techniques or Programs.

Whole Word Accuracy (WWA). A criterion measure used in multiple-phoneme approach of articulation treatment; the entire word is judged for accuracy (as against judging the accuracy of only the target phoneme).

Wh-Questions. Questions that begin with wh-; interrogative statements that begin with what, when, where, and who; treatment targets for language impaired children.

Wireless Systems. Assistive Listening Devices that transmit messages from a speaker to a listener without wire connections; include FM auditory trainers and infrared systems; see under Aural Rehabilitation.

Word Combinations.

The same as Phrases.

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